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Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's, der Nilquellen- und Kusten-Gebiete des Rothen Meeres und des nordlichen Somal-Landes. Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1 November 1869-1 PAril 1873. Two volumes. Original three-quarters leather over marbled boards. 9 1/2 x 6 inches (25 x 18 cm); with 44 colored and 7 uncolored lithographed plates by the author, fold-out color lithographed map; Bound with With HEUGLIN, MARTIN THEODOR VON. Nachträge und Berichtigungen zur Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's... Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1871. "R.L." crowned monogram stamps on titles, light spotting and toning including to plates, bindings rubbed.
"The author's own observations and collections during a twelve years' stay in Western Asia, and North-east and Central Africa, the work gives a systematic synopsis of all the birds observed up to the date of publication in Northeast Africa" (Anker). Anker 209; Fine Bird Books, p.82; Nissen IVB 441
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