The Birds of Middlesex. A Contribution to the Natural History of the County.

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Small 8vo, pp xvi, 284, tinted lithographed frontipsiece, uncut in original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight strain to inner hinge, but a fine bright copy, FIRST EDITION; the ornithological significance of this title has diminished somewhat since 1866 with the disappearence of most of the birds [probably into Mr Harding's workshop], but it retains remarkable topographical importance as a survey of his local rural haunts around Hendon, Hampstead and Barnet, many still locatable beneath the local concrete structures long since covering them [which,as a resident, I can confirm]. Harting wrote his book whilst a young solicitor living at Kingsbury. This copy of his first literary effort bears the bookplate of Charles Auriel Sperling, while Harting's own copy travelled further than his birds, ending up in the Bradley Martin Collection. N° de ref. del artículo 28364

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