British Ornithologists' Union | Reports on the collects ions... in Dutch New Guinea, London, 1916, half morocco
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British Ornithologists’ Union
Reports on the collects ions made by the British Ornithologists’ Union expedition and the Wollaston expedition in Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1913. London: Francis Edwards, 1916
FIRST EDITION, number 24 of 150 copies, 2 volumes, 4to (325 x 255mm.), 2 double-page coloured maps, 41 plates, 13 coloured, contemporary burgundy half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut
“In 1909 Wollaston joined the expedition to Dutch New Guinea organized by the British Ornithologists' Union under Walter Goodfellow. The expedition failed to reach the Nassau range, and there was much sickness; but Wollaston made a valuable collects ion of natural history specimens and an interesting study of the Tapiro tribe, discovered by the expedition and described in his Pygmies and Papuans (1912)” (ODNB).
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