The Birds of Tierra Del Fuego

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Half brown morocco and green cloth. Teg. Fine. xxxvi, 158 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition one of 300 this copy not numbered. 21 hand-colored lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, 23 uncolored photogravure plates, and one lithographed map of Tierra Del Fuego. The author was a retired British army officer, Inniskilling Dragoons. Index and List of Illustrations. Crawshay describes his encounter with a Tierra Del Fuego tribe member known as "Ona," a civilization (six thousand years old) now extinct. Wide text margins, interior contents very clean and bright.