Live auction - Lot 672
[Ornithology]
De vogels van Belgisch Congo en van Ruanda-Urundi (les oiseaux du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi).
Tervuren, Museum van Belgisch Congo, 1948-1960
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
7 parts (of 10) in 7 vol., folio.
Wine red cloth, gilt titled flat spines.
A study on birds in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi by the renowned Belgian zoologist, ornithologist and entomologist H. Schouteden (1881-1972). With numerous b/w ill. and maps in text. Our set contains: Vol. I (I): Struthioniformes, Colymbiformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Anseriformes, Falconiformese; Vol. II (IV): Coraciiformes, Strigiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Cypseliformes; (VI): Passeriformes (1); (VII): Passeriformes (2); (VIII): Passeriformes (3); (IX): Passeriformes (4); (X): Passiformes (5). Lacking vol. I part II, Galliformes (etc.) & III (Columbiformes (etc.) and vol. II (V): Coliiformes (etc.).
Ref. Opac KBR. - COPAC. - BnF.