First [second, third & fourth] report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum (complete set including supplements).

Balfour, A. & R. G. Archibald (eds.)

Published by 1904-1911, 1904

About this Item

With 71 colour-printed plates (30 of these entomological, 38 of microscopical specimens, two ornithological, one of a medical instrument) and numerous black and white plates and text figures, 3 col. maps, contemporary original blind stamped cloth bindings with gilt titles on spines and front boards. Library bookplate on inside cover, some library stamps, some marginal worming, mainly to inside boards and endpapers in a few volumes, otherwise very good.A complete set of four reports in seven volumes., including the supplements to the third and fourth reports. Rare to find complete, certainly with the supplements present. Many articles on medicine but also some on the ethnography of Sudan and on insects. Includes descriptions of new species, mainly in Diptera. The coloured plates of flies, true bugs (Hemiptera, "Homoptera") and Coleoptera are very good.

Seller Inventory # EG26988

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First [second, third & fourth] report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum (complete set including supplements).
• Publisher: 1904-1911
• Publication Date: 1904