Beschreibung:

Fry, C Hilary, Stuart Keith and Emil K Urban (series editors) and many others
The Birds of Africa, 1982-2004 (7 vols)
Published: Academic Press, London, 1982-2004
Edition: First
[Full sets are rare outside ornithological libraries, so please contact us if you would like more details of this set.] Originally intended as a four-volume work, this eventually became a set of seven volumes, the first six published by Academic Press, the seventh by Christopher Helm, also of London. This is a fine set of all seven volumes, all first editions, complete and unmarked, laminated colour-illustrated dustjackets of different colours (Vols 1-III plastic protected), publishers' original brown cloth-boards and plain endpapers. The series editors were C Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith and Emil K Urban, and Martin Woodcock was the main illustrator. The text is profusely illustrated with b/w drawings and tables, with 2-colour distribution maps, and with inserted colour plates. There are separate introductions, acknowledgments, bibliographies and indexes for all volumes. From Vol II Claude Chappuis provides accoustic references (lists of recordings of bird sounds). Vol I. 1982. Brown, Urban and Newman, eds. Foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh. xiii + 521 pp + 32 plates. (Note: foxing to title-page and half-title verso) Vol II. 1986. Urban, Fry and Keith, eds. xvi + 552 pp + 32 plates. Vol III. 1988. Parrots to Woodpeckers. Fry, Keith, and Urban, eds. xvi + 611 pp + 32 plates. Vol IV. 1992. Broadbills to Chats. Keith, Urban and Fry, eds. xiii + double-page b/w plate of Topography of African Passerine Birds + 609 pp + 32 colour plates. (Note: 5 mm chip to top of front flap of dustjacket) Vol V. 1997. Thrushes to Puffback Flycatchers. Urban, Fry and Keith, eds. xix + 669 pp + 32 plates. (Note: book unopened; mint) Vol VI. 2000. Picathartes to Oxpeckers. Fry and Keith (eds) and others. xvii + 724 pp + 36 plates. (Note: book unopened; mint) Vol VII. 2004. Sparrows to Buntings. Fry and Keith (eds) and others. xxii + 666 pp + 36 plates. Extent of the work: the total number of preliminary pages, text pages and plates is 4818, all printed on acid-free archival-quality papers. Jacket Condition: Fine Binding Condition: Fine Overall Condition: Fine Size: 320 x 250 x 350; kg