FORBES, Henry O., editor. The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Liverpool: 1903.

FORBES, Henry O., editor. The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Liverpool: 1903.

Rare comprehensive study of the natural history of 'the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean', covering the zoology, and including ornithology, botany and geology, illustrated with lithographic plates. The work also contains a well-illustrated narrative of the expedition, led by Forbes and W.R. Ogilvie-Grant under the auspices of the British Museum, with photographic text-illustrations of the local people, terrain and expedition camps. Forbes himself was on the staff of the Liverpool Museum, which accounts for the book's unusual place of publication.

Octavo (250 x 158mm). Half-title, 34 plates including 24 chromolithographs after P. Smit, H. Gronvold and others, numerous illustrations (occasional light marginal spotting to a few plates). Original green buckram, uncut (spine slightly faded and scratched, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

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