Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated

London: Groombridge and Sons, [ca 1870]. Undated, early reprint (originally published 1856). Demi octavo; publisher's decorated green cloth; all edges gilt; 144pp; 12-pp publisher's catalog bound in at rear; frontispiece and seven leaves of hand-colored plates; text illus. Prize inscription to verso of front endpaper, dated 1874. A tidy copy, with some mild rubbing to cloth; mild foxing to catalog at rear, else internally clean, tight and unmarked – easily Very Good. A charming introduction to members of the family Trochilidae. Beautifully illustrated, and clearly written for a grammar-school audience (in fact this title also appeared in the publisher's series "The Young Naturalist's Library").