Bianchi, V. L.
Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes. Oiseaux (Aves). Volume I. Colymbiformes and Procellariiformes. Demi-volume deuxième.
St. Petersbourg, Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 1913. Thick 8vo. xxxviii, 979 pp.; 10 plates (some double-sized). Later quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
Rare bird fauna of Russia including the large index of 30 pp. Written in Russian, with Latin nomenclature. This work was preceded in 1911 by Demi-volume premier, with 384 pp., and seven plates. Apart from volume I, only a part of volume 6 was published - see Cat. BM(NH). The title page erroneously calls for two plates only. A very good, clean and well-bound copy. Cat. BM(NH) Suppl., p. 1127; Wood, 237. Not in Nissen IVB.