Birds of the Sudan: Their Identification and Distribution
by Colonel Francis O. Cave and James D. MacDonald
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. D.M. Reid Henry. Navy blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding, endpapers foxed, edges of boards rubbed, spotting on upper part of spine, gilt on titles worn but still legible. Illustrated with 12 color plates of the birds, numerous drawings, 12 pages of black and white photographs of the Sudan landscape, two maps, one of which is a folding map tipped in at rear, 444 pages.
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- Title
- Birds of the Sudan: Their Identification and Distribution
- Author
- Colonel Francis O. Cave and James D. MacDonald
- Illustrator
- D.M. Reid Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oliver and Boyd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ORNITHOLOGY BIRDS GUIDE NATURAL HISTORY AVIFAUNA
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