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Oates (Frank) Matabele Land and the Victoria Fall

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edited by C.G.Oates, second edition, half-title, mounted engraved portrait, 6 chromolithographed plates, 14 lithographed natural history plates, all but one hand-coloured, 4 folding engraved maps with partial hand-colouring, plain plates and illustrations, 6pp. advertisements at end, slight marginal water-staining affecting some plates, with bookplate of the author and other members of his family on front and rear paste-downs, rear hinge weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight staining to upper cover, [Wood p.497], 8vo, 1889.

***This second edition contains additional material, particularly on birds by R.Bowdler Sharpe; with 2 plates of birds (by Keulemans), 2 of snakes, 5 of insects and 5 of botany. .

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