Birds of Eastern Canada; The Birds of Ontario in Relation to Agriculture. 2 Vols. Bound as One.

1919; 1898. 297; 32 pp. + plates. Two volumes custom-bound in 3/4 leather and cloth; gilt-ruled spine and spine lettering gilt. Taverner’s “Birds of Eastern Canada” is 1st edition, with 50 plates in colour; Canada. Dept. of Mines Geological Survey. Memoir 104. No. 3, Biological Series. (Bulletin) No. 1563. Nash’s “Birds of Ontario” is reprint of “Report of the Farmers’ Institute of Ontario, 1897-98”, with 32 plates in b/w. Minor rubbing to leather, and barely perceptible phantom creases in Nash’s pamphlet which must have been folded at an earlier stage of its existence.