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Oates (Frank). Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa, 2nd edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1889, mounted stippled-engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 chromolithographic plates, folding map, plates damp-stained, author's posthumous bookplate to half-title, bookplates of his descendants William Edward Oates (dated 1897) and Robert Washington Oates to front pastedown and free endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, front board stained, 8vo, together with: Haddon Hall Library, Bird Watching, by Edmund Selous, 1st edition, deluxe issue, J. M. Dent & Co., 1901, 7 photogravure or wood-engraved plates with captioned tissue-guards, woodcut bookplate, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original pictorial vellum gilt, 8vo, number 127 of 150 copies, Witherby (Harry F.), Bird Hunting on the White Nile. A Naturalist's Experiences in the Soudan, 1st edition, the Office of "Knowledge," 1902, halftone frontispiece, similar vignettes, original pictorial cloth, spine darkened, 8vo, Priest (Cecil D.), A Guide to the Birds of Southern Rhodesia and a Record of their Nesting Habits, 1st edition, William Clowes & Sons, Ltd, 1927, 14 colour plates, cancelled library stamps to front free endpaper, original green cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Chapman (Frank M.), Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 1st UK edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, original pictorial cloth gilt, and 9 similar works, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo (Qty: 14) Wood pp. 497 (Oates), 562 (Haddon Hall Library/Selous, 'a reliable, popular and interesting book'), 632 (Witherby, 'a very interesting account'), 524 (Priest), 285 (Chapman). The Oates family copy of the first work, first published in 1881, this second edition 'containing much additional matter, especially on birds by Bowdler Sharpe' (Wood).