Note on the Birds of Damara Land

£650 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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.

• Year: 1872

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