Richard Kearton
Our Rare British Breeding Birds, Their Nests, Eggs, and Summer Haunts
1899 Cassell and Company 
First Illustrated Edition
A beautiful Victorian ornithological first edition
Photographic illustrations by Cherry Kearton
Gilt embossed green cloth covers.
Very Good/Good - tight binding no defects other than consistent with age, shelf wear, as per photos
UK and US buyers only

Richard Kearton 1862 – 1928, and Cherry Kearton 1871 – 1940, brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and, in 1895, published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs. Richard was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society. Cherry later became a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore Roosevelt. The Royal Geographical Society created the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in his honour.

Cherry and Richard Kearton shot a number of 'shorts' of birds and animals for Charles Urban in the years 1905–1908. From 1909, Cherry moved into the field of wildlife documentary film making, shot on visits to Africa, India, Borneo, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He directed more than thirty films for his film companies Cherry Kearton Ltd and Cherry Kearton Films Ltd.