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WESTELL, W. Percival. Country Rambles. Being A Field Naturalist's and Country Lover's Note Book for a Year. With An Introduction by F.G. Aflalo. Illustrated with Photographs taken direct from Nature by J.T. Newman, and from Drawings by Arthur Martin.
London: Henry J. Drane, 1903. Tall 8vo., original dark green cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper cover and spine, xvi, 312, xxxvipp. index (1)p.errata, (3)pp. ads. Inner front hinge cracked otherwise a fine copy.
"This volume consists of notes on Natural History written in a plain and unvarnished style, and placed under the dates when they occurred, or general information which came under my notice during the closing year of the nineteenth century... There are many entries of Birds, Mammals, Butterflies, Insects, Fishes, Trees, Flowers etc., which may be looked for at certain stated times in any year; thus this Diary will also serve as a Natural History Calendar..." For the most part the authors observations were made in Hertfordshire.
WESTELL, W. Percival. Country Rambles. Being A Field Naturalist's and Country Lover's Note Book for a Year. With An Introduction by F.G. Aflalo. Illustrated with Photographs taken direct from Nature by J.T. Newman, and from Drawings by Arthur Martin. London: Henry J. Drane, 1903. Tall 8vo., original dark green cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper cover and spine, xvi, 312, xxxvipp. index (1)p.errata, (3)pp. ads. Inner front hinge cracked otherwise a fine copy.
"This volume consists of notes on Natural History written in a plain and unvarnished style, and placed under the dates when they occurred, or general information which came under my notice during the closing year of the nineteenth century... There are many entries of Birds, Mammals, Butterflies, Insects, Fishes, Trees, Flowers etc., which may be looked for at certain stated times in any year; thus this Diary will also serve as a Natural History Calendar..." For the most part the authors observations were made in Hertfordshire.
