Hautes montagnes d'Afrique, vers les neiges éternelles sous l'équateur
- Publisher : Editions du Museum
- Published In : Paris
- Illustrations : 44 b/w plates, 43 text figs
Description:
Avec un appendice sur les montagnes du Choa et du Chillalo, par Hugh Scott. Publications du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Supplément No 1. Text French. A record of the observations of René Jeannel (1879-1965) director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris from 1945 to 1951, of the snow covered mountains in Africa including, Ruwenzori Mountains (Uganda), Virunga (Congo), Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mt Meru (Kenya), Aberdare Range (Kenya), Mount Elgon (on the border of Uganda and Kenya) and the heights in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Includes Jeannel’s photographs and those of the French entomologist Charles A. Alluaud (1861-1949). Chapters on the flora and flora of these mountainous areas.
Condition
4to, cont. qtr leather, spine a little scuffed and faded, marbled boards and endpapers. Vg.
From the library of the entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.
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