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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older set of 4 books in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Front cover lining cracked on inner due to use. No notes or highlighting. See images. This is the best set I have seen of these lovely books. Fantastic books

About the book >.>.> MRROULUS Vieillott. -Bill shorter than the head thick broader than high at the base; enimen arched; upper mandible indistinctly grooved; under one with the symphisis very short and oblique; tips of both mandibles notched; commissure arched; nostrils lateral round situated at the base of the bill and partly covered with small feathers. Legs abdominal short; feet of three toes all directed forwards and united by a membrane. Wings and tail short. THE LITTLE AUK or Common Rotche as it is also called though in its habits very similar to the Guillemots and the true Auks is only a winter visitor to the British Islands and is more frequently met with among those of Orkney (OS)