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.

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ANDERSSON (Charles John)
Note on the Birds of Damara Land

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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