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1st edition with Preface and Additions by John Neale Dalton. Volume I: XXVIII, 676 PP with tables, 27 charts and maps and 25 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded chart and 9 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): folded map of the Cruise of H.M.S Bacchante, 1879-82. Volume II: XII, 803 PP with 34 charts, maps, and plans, and 26 b/w illustrations, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front covers and spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Henry L. White of the "Australian Ornithology Philately and Bibliography". Lower edge of covers rubbed at fore corners and foot of spine. Occasional foxing . Small bump of cover at top corner of Volume I. Gutter of endpapers starting, otherwise a very nice set. Scarce. 23 x 16. Volume I: The West and the South - The Mediterranean, Teneriffe, West Indies, Bermudas, Vigo, Ferrol, St. Vincent, the Plate, Falkland islands, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Fiji. Volume II: The East - Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Egypt, Palestine, the Mediterranean. Ferguson: 5795 - Ingleton: 12181.
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