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About the product Large squarish 8vo; original pale grey cloth; spine lettered in gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 321; 160 full-page colour illustrations. Dustwrapper a little sunned; tape marks to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps; endpapers and page edges somewhat foxed, sporadic spotting elsewhere. Good to very good."The modern text for this edition, Birds of Asia, has been written by Adam Rutgers, and it demonstrates just how accurate were John Gould's illustrations - despite the general lack of ornithological knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century." Birds of Asia. Illustrations from the Lithographs of John Gould (Books)

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About the product Small quarto; original red cloth with gilt spinetail device to upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. ix + (i) + 175; colour frontispiece and one colour plate, fold-out map. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and rather edgeworn; trace of foxing to endpapers and edges; loosely inserted"Additions and Corrections to the Check List of the Birds of Southern Rhodesia". Good condition."The intensive study and collection of birds since the publication of Priest's Birds of Southern Rhodesia 1933-1936, necessitated the compilation of an up-to-date Check List. This work, sponsored by the Rhodesian Ornithological Society, presents the most recent information on distribution, ecology and breeding of all species now known to occur in Southern Rhodesia." Reay H.N. Smithers, Michael P. Stuart Irwin&Mary L. Paterson: A Check List of the Birds of Southern Rhodesia with Data on Ecology and Breeding