1920 A Naturalist on Lake Victoria
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Description
Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of this work.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, one colour plate, one folding map, one folding graph, and forty-eight plates.
Collated, complete.
A naturalist study of Lake Victoria in Uganda, one of Africa's great lakes. The lake has many names in local languages, but is known by 'Lake Victoria' as it was named after Queen Victoria in 1858.
This particular work pays special attention to the sleeping sickness and the tse-tse flies, on which the author was known for his extensive study.
Written by Gregory Douglas Hale Carpenter, a British entomologist.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some minor mark to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded with some bumping. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean, with just a couple of minor marks.
Very Good
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