Sunday, November 23, 2014

Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica

Philip Henry Gosse - Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica (1849)

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Another book I'm including mainly for the nice illustrations - there's practically no text. Gosse was a naturalist, preacher and prolific author perhaps best known for the creationist Omphalos.  Both Borges and Stephen Jay Gould wrote essays about him while his son was the critic Edmund Gosse.