BIRDS OF THE MALTESE ARCHIPELAGO by Bannerman, David A. & Velle-Gaffiero, Joseph A - 1976

Valletta, Malta: Museaums Department. Maroon cloth, gilt title. 571pp. b/w illus.; col. plates; fold-out map to rear. Top front corner slightly bumped. Edgewear to dust jacket with several chips and tears to upper and lower edges. Spine slightly sunned. Price clipped. Contents are clean and bright. OVERSEAS ORDERS WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1976.

Valletta: Museums Department, 1976. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A beautifully illustrated study of the birds of the Maltese archipelago. Illustrated throughout with twenty-two colour plates, a fold-out to the rear, and many in-text illustrations. Collated complete. Includes details of the topography of a bird, various species, an appendix with a select bibliography. Written by David A. Bannerman, a British ornithologist and curator to the British Museum of Natural History from 1919 to 1952, and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. With a foreword by Dom Mintoff, a Maltese Socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958 and 1949 to 1984. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also smart with light shelf wear and the odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed

Bookplate, small stain to side-page-edge,VG., dustwrapper 22 color plates,folding map Ornithology Museums Department Valletta 1976 orig.boards 23x16cm, xix,550,(24)pp

Valletta, Malta: Museums Dept, 1976. Bannerman, David A. (1886-1979). (1) Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent. 4pp. on 2 sheets. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1976]. 211 x 148 mm. Small ink smear on last page. Laid into: (2) Bannerman and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. Birds of the Maltese archipelago. Foreword by Dom Mintoff. xix, [3], 550pp. 22 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Valletta [Malta]: Museums Department, 1976. 230 x 155 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly worn and soiled). Together 2 items. Very good to fine. An excellent letter from the noted British ornithologist, author of numerous definitive works on the birds of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic islands. The letter is laid into the above-listed First Edition copy of Bannerman's Birds of the Maltese Archipelago, a work that contains the first full description of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese islands and stresses the crucial role the Maltese archipelago plays in bird migration… Read More