Author: ROOKMAAKER, L.C.
Title: Encounters with the African rhinoceros. A chronological survey of bibliographical and iconographical sources on rhinoceroses in southern Africa from 1795 to 1875: reconstructing views on classification and changes in distribution. ISBN 9783865230911
Description: Münster, Schüling, 2008. 148 pp. Illustr. 4to. As new. Paperback. Reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, vol. 62, part 2 (October 2006). The purpose of this monograph is to document evidence of rhinoceroses in southern Africa and it includes locality records, illustrations and lists of specimens. All locality records of rhinoceroses are given with coordinates, while maps show the nineteenth-century ranges of both black and white rhinoceroses in the present countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Many of the illustrations - some reproduced for the first time - were made in the field. Images by Samuel Daniell in 1801, William Burchell in 1812, William Cornwallis Harris in 1842 and Thomas Baines between 1862 and 1868 show the characteristics of the various species. The specimens (hides, skeletons, skulls, horns) collected during the nineteenth century and preserved in European collections are listed and their status discussed. ISBN: 9783865230911

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