Lot 113
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SMITH, Andrew. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836 ... Aves, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. Volume II (Aves) only, 4°, 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day & Haghe after George Ford (plate 16 spotted, occasional light spotting and browning), contemporary green half calf gilt (extremities rubbed), spine gilt in compartments. Mendelssohn II, pp. 327-328; Nissen ZBI 880; Zimmer II, 593.
SMITH, Andrew. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836 ... Aves, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. Volume II (Aves) only, 4°, 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day & Haghe after George Ford (plate 16 spotted, occasional light spotting and browning), contemporary green half calf gilt (extremities rubbed), spine gilt in compartments. Mendelssohn II, pp. 327-328; Nissen ZBI 880; Zimmer II, 593.

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SMITH, Andrew. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836 ... Aves, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. Volume II (Aves) only, 4°, 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Day & Haghe after George Ford (plate 16 spotted, occasional light spotting and browning), contemporary green half calf gilt (extremities rubbed), spine gilt in compartments. Mendelssohn II, pp. 327-328; Nissen ZBI 880; Zimmer II, 593.

Plate 63, "Halcyon Senegaloides (Male)", is illustrated on the front cover of this catalogue. Please also see colour plate 2.

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