THE BIRDS OF KENYA COLONY AND THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE (1938)

Publisher's black cloth bindings with gilt titles to spines.

Vol.I: xliv + 542pp. Illustrated with colour plates (all present) and text illustrations.

Vol.II: continuous pagination from vol.I. Pages 545 to 1134. Illustrated with colour plates (all present) and text illustrations.

Vol.III: continuous pagination from vol.II. Pages 1137 to 1592. Illustrated with colour plates (all present) and text illustrations. Large fold-out map of Kenya Colony at end of volume.

Colour plates (containing numerous figures) reproduced from paintings by George Lodge, 241 black & white figures from drawings by Grönvold.

Volumes I & II in good condition with mild age-associated markings to the bindings. Internally clean with occasional light foxing to the prelims and final pages. Volume III has some damage to the top and bottom corners of the front panel, as per images, as well as to the top and bottom corners of the preliminary pages. Considering age, a fair to good set of this scarce work.

'Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929) was an English administrator, explorer and ornithologist. Jackson joined the British Ornithologists' Union in 1888. That year a paper by Jackson and Captain Shelley was published describing birds collected during his 1884-1886 trip to Africa. He collected many specimens in an 1889-1891 expedition to Uganda, and descriptions of this collection were published in a five-part paper in the Ibis in 1891-1892. Other papers described new species appeared in the Ibis and other journals between 1890 and 1917. Jackson was elected President of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society in 1910. He wrote nine of the nineteen chapters of Big Game Shooting, published in 1894. After retiring, he worked on a complete history of the Birds of East Africa and Uganda, which was published posthumously in 1938.' - Wikipedia