The Birds of East Africa: A collection of lithographs prepared from the originals drawn from nature by V. G. L. van Someren between the years 1909 and 1937. Volume 1. Ploceidae

Sarasota, FL: A. C. Allyn for the Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue bonded leather over boards with gilt stamping on the spine. Very light wear to the extremities. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. A volume of meticulously drawn, typically posed portraits in color of the bird species of East Africa with 93 plates. One in an edition limited to only 100. This copy is not numbered. Signed by V. G. L. van Someren on the limitation page.