ANDERSSON (Charles John)

Note on the Birds of Damara Land

and the Adjacent Countries of South-West Africa.First edition. Coloured frontispiece map, 4 plates. 8vo. A very good copy in later green half-calf, gilt. xlviii, 394pp. London, 1872.

£650.00

Scarce. Published posthumously, this is the first ornithogical work relating to Namibia.The work identifies 428 species from South West Africa, which includes Ovampoland, a portion of the Kalahari Desert and Namaqualand.Andersson is considered the most important of all the early explorers to the region. Mendelssohn I, p42.

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