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110217
MEINERTZHAGEN, Colonel Richard.

Birds of Arabia.

Stock Code 110217

London, Sotheran, 1980

$1,232.00 - $1,232.00
$1,232.00
$1,232.00 - $1,232.00
$1,232.00
The preferred enlarged edition. A controversial figure in his 'day job' of military intelligence and espionage, Meinertzhagen was also a keen ornithologist and in 1948–49, accompanied by Dr. Phillip Clancey, he made an expedition to Arabia, Yemen, Aden, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya which resulted in the present book, the definitive work on the subject.

Edition deluxe; folio, 624 pp., folding map,19 colour plates, 9 photographic plates, maps and illustrations in text, original green half morocco gilt by Morrell, an excellent copy.
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