The Birds of West and Equitorial Africa
BANNERMAN, David Armitage
With a Foreword by Sir Alan Burns.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Oliver & Boyd, [1953]
Stock code: 42370
Price: £84.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 30 fine coloured plates, 24 plates in monochrome and over 430 illustrations in the text; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, red tops, uncut, fore-edges mildly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, one wrapper chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip.
Bright, crisp copy of a standard reference. The set comprises Vol. I: Struthionidae to Picidae; Vol. II: Eurylaemidae to Ploceidae. Tate p.200.