Beschreibung:

6 parts in 4 vol., (including Atlas), photographic portrait frontispiece, 1 hand-coloured engraved map, 3 folding hand-coloured lithographed maps, 30 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic by and after T.G. Meissner and Bruno Geisler, numerous engraved illustrations, occasional spotting and marginal soiling, 6 plates trimmed affecting imprint, bookseller's tickets on front pastedowns, contemporary half cloth, spines gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, [Anker 416; Nissen ZBI 769; Wood p.532], 4to, 1900-1905. *** The most complete and most important Monograph on the Birds of Africa so far written' (Wood)