The History of the European FaunaScharff, R. F. (Robert Francis)
History
The History of the European Fauna
Scharff, R. F. (Robert Francis)
Animals -- Europe; Zoogeography
Little Women and Good Wives
Hypatia
Villette
Ruth
Agatha's Husband
Head of the Family
Old Helmet
Bleak House
Cecil Dreeme
Melbourne House
Wuthering Heights
The Days of Bruce
The Vale of Cedars
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Vashti
The Caxtons
Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings
Toilers of the Sea
What Can She Do?
New Border Tales
Frank Fairlegh
Zanoni
Macaria
Inez
Conduct and Duty
Windsor Castle
Hard Times
Tower of London
John Halifax, Gentleman
Westward Ho!
Lavengro
It is Never Too Late to Mend
Two Years Ago
In His Steps
Crucifixion of Phillip Strong
His Brother's Keeper
Robert Hardy's Seven Days, and Malcom Kirk (in 1 vol.)
Richard Bruce
The Twentieth Door
House of the Seven Gables
Elsie Venner
The Romany Rye
Little Dorrit
The Scarlet Letter
Mary Barton
London: Walter Scott, Limited, Paternoster Square.
NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY.
GRAVURE EDITION.
PRINTED ON ANTIQUE PAPER. 2s. 6d. PER VOL.
_Each Volume with a Frontispiece in Photogravure._
By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
THE SCARLET LETTER.
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE.
TANGLEWOOD TALES.
TWICE-TOLD TALES.
A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
OUR OLD HOME.
MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE.
THE SNOW IMAGE.
TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
THE NEW ADAM AND EVE.
LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE.
By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.
ELSIE VENNER.
By HENRY THOREAU.
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS.
WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS.
A WEEK ON THE CONCORD.
London: Walter Scott, Limited, Paternoster Square.
Crown 8vo, Cloth Elegant, Price 5s. net.
=BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES=
Drawn and Described by JOHN DUNCAN.
This volume contains about 400 drawings of birds by John Duncan,
naturalist and artist. The drawings are accompanied by a concise
description of each bird.
* * * * *
Mr. Chas. Dixon, in the Introduction to this work, says:--"Just a
century ago, British naturalists and the British public were captivated
by the first volume of Bewick's classic _History of British Birds_--a
work, completed by the issue of the second volume seven years later,
that gave more or less accurate pictures of all the species, and one
that has retained a high place in the affections of ornithologists and
artistic people generally down to the present time. To a certain extent,
Mr. Duncan's volume very closely resembles the immortal engraver on
wood; and in some respects, as those who have the pleasure of inspecting
his remarkable series of drawings will find for themselves, it is
superior. The present book, so far as British birds are concerned, is
practically unique. For the first time, an up-to-date manual, containing
an accurate and artistic picture of every species, is placed within the
reach of the multitude by reason of its very modest price."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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