HEUGLIN, M. (ARTIN) TH. von.

Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Mit einem Vorworte von Aug. Petermann.

Leipzig u. Heidelberg, Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, 1869. Orig. full cloth, gilt back, gilt lettering on frontcover. very light discolouring to back. X,382 pp., 8 tinted wood-engraved plates, 9 textillustr. and 1 large folded outline-coloured lithographed map. The first ab. 25 leaves with a brownspot in lower margin (decraesing) and last ca 20 leaves with a rather faint dampstaining in upper inner margins.

First edition. It contains importent observations on the geography, ornithology and natural history of the area by the respected ornitologist Heuglin, as he described many african species for the first time in his ornitological work.

Order-nr.: 28434