xxvii, 890 pp., 12 hand-col plates, Roy. 8vo, orig. half roan, scuffed, rubbed, some wear, marbled endpapers. Cracked between frontis and title, but still firm. Edges uncut; minor chipping, short tear to outer, blank margin of a few pages. A few marginal pencil annotation. Good. Provenance: Ownership signature in pencil to blank recto of frontispiece, dated 1900, J. Riddell Lt. 16th (Queen's) Lancers. George Hutton 'Jack' Riddell, (1878-1953), served in South Africa during the second Boer War (1900-1902). Also with bookplate of South African ornithologist, R.C. Bolster.