Gli uccelli dell'Africa Orientale Italiana. Volumes 1 and 2 [of 4].

Milano, 1940, 1942. Two volumes in two. 8vo (24.8 x 18.2 cm). 544 pp. [I: xiv, 261; II: [iv], 265]; 76 [I: 38; II: 38] full-colour plates after watercolours by G. Gallelli. Original, near uniform pictorial blue boards, with full-colour ornithological vignettes on the front boards. = A rather rare and very well illustrated ornithological monograph by the Italian ornithologist Edgardo Moltoni (1896-1980), dealing with the avifauna of Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia, however, complete in four volumes, of which these are the first two. The first volume with on the front free endpaper recto a small stamp of the German ornithologist and Nazi Günther Theodor Niethammer (1908-1974), and in the top margin in pencil the name Dr. E. Kattinger (i.e., the German entomologist and ornithologist Emil Kattinger). The second volume inscribed in the top margin of the title page by the author, to Prof. Niethammer. Inner joints shaky, partly split; spine of second volume sunned, and some damage to the covers of both covers, but apart from this shelf wear a good set. Internally very good, clean. Nissen IVB, 641 (quoting three volumes).