A Field Guide to Birds of the USSR. Including Eastern Europe and Central Asia [From the Library of John Emerson Griffith]

Flint, V. E. ; Boehme, R. L.; Kostin, Y. V.; Kuznetsov, A. A.

ISBN 10: 0691082448 / ISBN 13: 9780691082448

Published by Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1984

About this Item

Pp. xxxvi, 353; 48 col plates, 303 maps, 71 text figures. Dust jacket near fine with a small closed tear to the front panel, foxed on the inside, not price-clipped. Contents clean and tight, bookplate belonging to Griffith, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. First field guide to Birds of the USSR in English. Describes 728 species occuring in Europe, Central and Eastern Asia. Provenance: with the bookplate of John Emerson Giffith, Oologist and former editor of the Jourdain Society Bulletin, he held a senior post for over 30 years and made multiple trips to Russia. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 036165

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Field Guide to Birds of the USSR. Including Eastern Europe and Central Asia [From the Library of John Emerson Griffith]
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691082448
• ISBN 13: 9780691082448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Birds - World

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Synopsis

The description for this book, A Field Guide to Birds of Russia and Adjacent Territories, will be forthcoming.

Review

"This field guide, a most satisfactory translation of the earlier Soviet edition, will make life much easier for Western bird-watchers when they seek out the avifauna of eastern Europe, of the Caucasus and Central Asia, of the Siberian tundra and of the Soviet Far East."--John A. C. Greppin, The Times Literary Supplement

"A seminal contribution to world birding."--Howard Simons, The Washington Post Book World