Two Titles on West African Natural History, including: David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of Tropical West Africa.... (Total: 8 Items)
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Two Titles on West African Natural History, including: David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of Tropical West Africa. 1930-1951. Seven volumes only of an eight-volume set. [and:] [W. J. Hooker, editor]. Niger Flora. 1849. Bookplates. Very good. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.More Information:
This lot includes: David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of Tropical West Africa, with Special Reference to those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria. London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1930-1951. Seven octavo volumes of an eight-volume set (Volume III is missing). Maps and colored plates. Original blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Dust jacket present only on Volume VIII. Cracked hinge to first volume. [and:] [W. J. Hooker, editor]. Niger Flora; or, an Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa. London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1849. Octavo. xv, 587 pages. Frontispiece, two views, a map, and fifty plates of plants. Original decoratively embossed cloth over boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Boards bumped and rubbed. Spine sunned and chipped. Some foxing to plates. An ex-library copy.
Bookplate in all volumes. All very good.
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