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THE MAMMALS OF SOUTH AFRICA (Limited Subscriber’s Edition, Deluxe Binding) by Austin Roberts
Trustees of the Mammals of South Africa Book Fund, 1951
4to, xlvii + 700pp. Original green half leather binding, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering to spine and inlaid illustration to front board, all edges gilt. With full-colour frontispiece, 54 photographic monochrome plates, and 22 full colour plates, collated and complete. With a loosely inserted compliments card with the copy number printed on it.
Limited subscriber’s edition of 500 copies, of which this is no. 349. Signed by the chairman of the board of trustees.
Austin Roberts (1883-1948) was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his work ‘Birds of South Africa’, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region. His work ‘The mammals of South Africa’ was published posthumously in 1951.
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