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Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia 1896.

8vo, with pages out of sequence, in the following order: pp227-248, Crustacea, with plates 20 through 23 (b&w); pp 1-52 Mammalia, with plates 1 through 4 (3 in color, 1 b&w); pp 112-151 Reptilia, with plates 8 through 12 (3 in color, 1 b&w); and pp 53-111, Aves, with plates 5 through 7 (all in color) with a remarkable chromolithograph of the Princess of Wales parakeet with a pale pink throat. Red cloth w/ gilt title on spine. Bound without title page. Presentation inscription in the section on birds, p53, signed by G. A. Keartland and dated May 1896. Also signed by Meggitt on ffep. Very good

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