Tiblisi, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, 1962. 8vo (21.5 x 14.6 cm). 287 pp.; folded map. Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with title in black.

A rarely seen work on the birds of the lower Caucasus, and in particular of Georgia. In Russian (one title page in Georgian) with Latin nomenclature. Inscribed and dated (2.IX.1963) on the Russian title, most probably by the author, being a dedication to the Hungarian ornithologist András Keve-Kleiner (1909-1984). With the latter's pictorial (ornithological) stamp in the lower margin of the front free endpaper recto. Printed errata list mounted above. A very good copy.