DEER OF THE WORLD: THEIR EVOLUTION, BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY. By Valerius Geist.

1999 1st UK edition. 4to (220 x 285mm). Ppviii,421. Colour photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

At time of publication, the most up-to-date reference on deer of the world, and still authoritative - now out-of-print and quite scarce. Chapters include: Strategies of deer evolution; Early deer and their primitive descendants; Early deer with antlers and tusks; Three-pronged Old World deer; Old World deer radiation; New World deer; Megaloceros - the Ice-Age giant and its living relatives; Red deer; Moose; White-tailed deer and mule deer; Roe deer; Reindeer and caribou. A fascinating and readable book.