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Maynard's Birds of the Bahamas

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Title: Illustrations and Descriptions of the Birds of the Bahamas
Author: Maynard, Charles J.
Description: [iv], [2], 2 pp. Two hand colored lithographs. (Folio) 22½x15, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (cover title 'Bahama Fruit Finch'). First Edition.Very rare monograph on the Bahama Fruit Finch. Plates show a gathering of finches on a tree branch and the various anatomical sections of the bird. According to ABPC and other sources, only a single copy of this work has appeared at auction in the past 30 years. Worldcat locates only 6 copies.
Heading: zzf(Bahamas)Place Published: Boston
Publisher: C.J. Maynard
Date Published: [1895]