Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whittaker

The birds of Tunisia. London: R.H. Porter, 1905

FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 126 OF 250 COPIES, 2 volumes, royal 8vo (265 x 165mm.), 2 photogravure frontis🌠pieces, 15 lithographed plates of bir🍬ds after Grönvold, 2 plain plates, 2 maps, contemporary half morocco by R.H. Porter

“This work deals wiꦗth about 365 species and subspecies of the Tunisian avifauna. Most of tಌhe descriptions are based on specimens in the author’s own collection” (Anker). 

Joseph Isaac🌄 Spadafora Whittaker (1850-1936) was a Sicilian-English ornithologist and archeologist. A member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and founder of the Society for the 𝐆Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Palermo, he was a keen ornithologist, recording and investigating birds throughout his career, and publishing numerous works on the subject, of which this impressive publication on the birds of Tunisia is his most notable. 

LITERATURE:

Anker 525; Nissen IVB 983; Zimmer, p. 671