Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. From the Letters and Journals of the late Frank Oates. Appendix IV Entomology

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With additions by A. Sidney Olliff and W.L. Distant. Appendix IV Entomology (pp. 338-389, Extracted from Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, second edition). Fine hand coloured lithographic plates, drawn by Westwood and printed by Mintern Bros. Folding map of 'South Eastern Africa shewing the country traversed by Mr. F. Oates 1873-5'. This Appendix describes insects collected by Oates, later acquired by the Entomological Department of the Museum of the University of Oxford. Francis (Frank) Oates (1840–1875) was a British naturalist and explorer; he was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls.

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8vo, orig. plain wrappers, worn, with ink stamp of the Natural History Agents Janson & Son to front wrapper.