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WHITEHEAD, JOHN. Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. 32 plates, including 11 in color of zoological subjects. x, 317 pages. Folio, 373x252 mm, original gilt-pictorial cloth, binding slightly cocked; foxing on preliminaries and index leaves, scattered pencil marginalia, soiling in blank lower margin of pages 10-11, plates clean. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893
first edition. Whitehead made the first successful ascent of Kina Balu, the highest peak on Borneo, during an ornithological collecting expedition to the region. Neate W58; Nissen ZBI 4394.
