Author: Zavattari, E (ed.)
Title: Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].
Description: Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with large, printed labels. = An important scientific expedition to this province in southern Ethiopia, bordering Kenya, divided in several sections, mostly written by its chief editor, Edoardo Zavattari (1883-1972), viz. Condizioni biogeografiche e anthropiche (Volume 1), of anthropological and ethnographical interest, with many photos of people, tools, etc., as well as landscapes, geological observations and general chapters on birds, molluscs, etc.; Raccolte zoologiche, mostly on entomology, with many new species - in particular Coleoptera and Hemiptera - and birds, but also molluscs (including new species), Oligochaeta, ticks, etc. (Volumes 2 and 3; both very nicely illustrated); and Raccolte botaniche (Volume 4; with many page-sized illustrations of plants). First volume with the front hinge partly split near the top end; otherwise in near mint condition, clean and unmarked. Not in Nissen.

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