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BAILEY, Capt. F. M. [Drop-head title:] Notes from southern tibet.

[Bombay?]. [s.n.], [1915]. First offprint edition.
8vo. 72-78pp, [1]. With a photographic plate. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A trifle marked, sunned.
'Another misfortune which occurred was the theft of all our shot-gun cartridges, and for two months we travelled through country where no collector had ever been, without being able to secure a single specimen'.

An apparently unrecorded offprint, extracted from the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, concerning the fauna of Southern Tibet; specifically, a number of specimens of mammals and birds gunned down by British Army officer, explorer, and trophy hunter Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967).
£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 34389