Beschreibung:

Harvie-Brown (John Alexander editor). [A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, extra-illustrated part set], 8 works in 9 volumes, 1st editions, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887-1904, comprising: A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty; The Outer Hebrides; Iona and Mull; The Orkney Islands; Argyll and the Outer Hebrides; The Moray Basin [in 2 volumes]; The Shetland Islands; The North-West Highlands and Skye, pictorial title-pages (some photographic), all plates and maps as called for, all volumes except Iona and Mull profusely extra-illustrated with contemporary original photographs (including albumen prints of which many signed in the negative by John Valentine or George Washington Wilson, gelatin silver prints, and platinum prints), together with other bound-in material including manuscript indices of extra illustrations, a few autograph letters (including Alfred Newton to 'My dear Buckley', probably T. E. Buckley, dated 15 December 1899, at rear of Shetland Islands), publisher's specimen pages, and mounted press cuttings, bookplates of M. Serjeantson, inner dentelles gilt, top edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco gilt by R. H. Porter, 8vo (22.1 x 14.8 cm) (Qty: 9) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Mullens & Swann p. 282 (all works); Wood pp. 379 (Sutherland, Outer Hebrides, Argyll, Moray Basin and North-West Highlands and Skye), 366 (Iona and Mull), 267 (Orkney), 335 (Shetland). '[Harvie-Brown's] contributions to ornithological science are literally legion ... His greatest work, however, and the one that will form an imperishable monument to his name, is the series of volumes on the vertebrate fauna of Scotland, most of which were written either by himself, or in collaboration with other ornithologists' (Mullens & Swann). The other works in the series were The Tay Basin and Strathmore (1906), The Tweed Area (1911) and Forth (1935); the projected accounts of the Clyde and Solway areas do not seem to have materialised.