Goss, N. S.
A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. With descriptive notes of the nests and eggs of the birds known to breed in the State.
Topeka, KS, Kansas Publishing House: T. D. Thacher, 1886. 8vo (23.5 x 15.0 cm). v, 70 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title on the front board.
A little-known catalogue of midwestern birds, written by the American ornithologist (Kansas State ornithologist) Nathaniel Stickney Goss (1826-1891), who owned a very large collection of birds. Printed slip, "Compliments of the author", tipped in. Provenance: owner's inscription dated on the front pastedown a printed label of "The Ostrom Elders Ornithology Collection given to Trinity College 1983". And decommission stamp of the latter, superimposed. Spine cover abraded. Internally a very good copy. Rare. We have never seen another copy before. Not in any major bibliography.

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