Alexander Wilson: the Scot who founded American ornithology.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume American Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and often underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds..... More