Useful Birds and Their Protection. Containing Brief Descriptions of the More Common and Useful Species of Massachusetts, With Accounts of Their Food Habits, and a Chapter on the Means of Attracting and Protecting Birds ;

[Boston, Mass.]: Mass. State Board of Agriculture, 1907. Second edition. Small quarto in red cloth; xx, 437 p. col. front., illus., LVI pl.; 25 cm. Roach predation to boards edges (superficial nibbles to cloth) ; gift inscription to front free endpaper; else Very Good++ in Very Good original printed DJ edge-chipped DJ (presumably uncommon thus). Hardcover.

A handsome work on high quality paperstock with numerous illustratins. A fairly early conservation work. // Ornithology, conservation; birdlife; birds. Early Dust Jackets