Lot 1345
  • 1345

Whitehead, John

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, folio (355 x 250mm.), x, [ii], 318pp., 32 lithographed plates [14 coloured, 17 tinted], original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, dark brown endpapers, slipcase

Literature

Fine Bird Books 155; Nissen ZBI 4394; Wood p.626; Zimmer p.673

Catalogue Note

The primary object of the expedition was ornithological research, though the plates also include natives, views, insects, mammals, etc.