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Count Kazimierz Wodzicki, Ornithological Notes, Vol. VI: The Cuckoo [1884]

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Title: Ornithological Notes. Vol. VI: The Cuckoo
Author: Count Kazimierz WODZICKI (1816–1889) [Polish ornithologist and faunist, member of the National Sejm in Lviv and the State Council in Vienna]
Publisher: At the “Czas” Printing House of Fr. Kluczycki and Company, Kraków
Year of publication: 1884. First and only edition.

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About this copy

Format: 19 cm.

Volume: 236 pp.

Binding: period half-leather

Volume VI of “Ornithological Notes” by Count Kazimierz Wodzicki, one of the pioneers of Polish ornithology, devoted to the cuckoo. Based on his own observations, the author describes the bird’s habit of laying eggs in other birds’ nests and its breeding habits. Wodzicki amassed a large ornithological collection, which he bequeathed, among others, to Jagiellonian University.

The copy is clean, the binding is in very good condition, and the pages are bright, free of stains and moisture damage.

Item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.

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