Bantams volume 157

volume 157

This volume provides a detailed introduction to the fundamental principles of animal taxonomy

Many of the engraved plates depict the unusual mammals species encountered as well as the native people Le Vaillant met

143 color plates and maps

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Bantams volume 157Pp. 116; frontispiece portrait of author, 12 black and white plates of bantams (line drawings by J. W. Ludlow), 12 text figures. Publishers original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 4to (12 x 8 1 2 inches). The author, William Entwisle, was probably the most important figure ever involved in the Poultry Fancy. He was responsible for introducing many new bantams taking the large fowl which existed and then, by