Birds of Arabia

by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Dso, Cbe

£450 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. Ornithology FIRST EDITION. Quarto 29 x 21cm , pp.624. With nineteen colour plates, nine photographic plates, fifty-three illustrations within the text, thirty-five text maps, and a folding map of the Arabian Peninsula 48 x 50 cms within a pocket at the rear. Bound in publisher's brown cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced £4 4s. A fine copy of the book in a very good wrapper with some chips and tears, old tape marks

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