Sibree (James) A Naturalist in Madagascar, first edition, plates and illustrations, 3 maps, one folding, publisher's File Copy with manuscript list of errata & corrigenda (?in the author's hand) loosely inserted and one or two notes in pencil, faint marks from rusting paperclip to list & verso of frontispiece where previously attached, original pictorial green cloth with chameleon in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., a fine copy, 8vo, 1915.
⁂ The author was a missionary on Madagascar and worte several books about the flora and fauna there, as well as others in the Malagasy language. Sibree's dwarf lemur was named after him in 1896 by the Swiss zoologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major.
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