Bird-Life
Bird-life; being a history of the bird, its structure, and habits, together with sketches of fifty different species
This work, translated by Henry M. Labouchere and William Jesse from the second edition of Das Leben der Vögel, was written by A.E. Brehm, the author of the very well-known zoological encyclopedia Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s Life of Animals). The first half of the book consists of essays describing various behavioral, social, morphological, and even economic characteristics of birds. The last half is a study of fifty individual species. The book is dedicated to Brehm’s father, Christian, a pastor and noted ornithologist in his own right. There are eleven tinted lithographic plates by the acclaimed illustrator J.G. Keulemans. This book is from the Birds Library at the National Museum of Natural History.
This late 19th-century cloth publisher's binding has gold stamping on the cover and spine. There are previous, unsympathetic, repairs to the volume that include a red library buckram repair to the spine and buckram hinges in the interior gutters. The interior spine lining is detaching. The corners are also exposed. Conservators will remove the textblock from the case and clean and reline the spine. The previous repairs will be removed. The case, including the corners, will be repaired and the textblock recased into the repaired cover.
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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future
