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Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Book has mild rubbing to edges of spine. otherwise book is in excellent condition with a clean cover, bright pages, and a strong binding.

Folio; original blue cloth with gilt grosbeak icon on upper board, very slightly bumped at one corner; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little worn at head and tail of spine; slight tape stains to endpapers and flaps of dustwrapper; signed by previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on half-title page, with his discreet hand-stamp here and on the front free endpaper; pp. 247, incl. index; 56 beautiful colour plates of Lansdowne bird paintings, with rough sketches of each of the species. Very good condition. "James Fenwick Lansdowne of Victoria, British Columbia, is one of the leading bird artists of his generation. Still under thirty, he has produced some of the finest portraits ever made of North American birds. Scientifically accurate, they are also works of art: original in concept, imaginative in treatment, full of action and life. Now for the first time Lansdowne's bird paintings are made available in superb full-color reproductions with accompanying text by the well-known ornithologist and former Executive Director of the Audubon Society of Canada, John A. Livingston.".

Folio; original blue cloth with gilt heron icon on upper board, slightly bumped at one corner; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; signed by Lansdowne on title page; slight tape stains to endpapers and flaps of dustwrapper; signed by previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on front free endpaper; original photograph of J. Fenwick Lansdowne at 1968 exhibition inserted loose; pp. 231, incl. index; 52 beautiful colour plates of Lansdowne bird paintings, with rough sketches of each of the species. Very good condition. "The publication of Birds of The Northern Forest in 1966 confirmed the standing of James Fenwick Lansdowne as one of the leading bird artists of his generation. Though still a young man, he produced some of the finest portraits ever made of North American birds. Scientifically accurate, they are also works of art - original in concept, imaginative in treatment, full of action and life. In Birds Of The Eastern Forest: 1, fifty-two new bird paintings by Lansdowne are made available in superb full-color reproductions with accompanying text by the well-known ornithologist John A. Livingston.".