Meinertzhagen, Col. R. — Birds of Arabia

Henry Sotheran London xiii, 624, 19 mounted colour plates, 9 mounted photographic plates, 53 text figs, 35 text maps + 1 folding colour map. . HB. Large 4to (346x245mm), original half morocco by Morrell, raised bands to spine, gilt title and decoration to compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine uniformly mellowed with light fading extending to upper edge of front board; light speckling to board edges and very slight foxing to fore-edge of text block. A well-presented copy.. De Luxe Edition, limited to 295 numbered copies (this copy no. 168). An enclosed typescript note on Sotheran's headed notepaper gives instructions on the care of the binding. Tipped in colour illustrations by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry, and Miss Talbot Kelly. First published in 1954 by Oliver and Boyd..