A Hand-book To The Marsupialia And Monotremata.
£100.00
Publisher
Edward Lloyd, Limited, 12, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street.
Place
London
Date
1896
Synopsis
(lloyd's natural history).
Item Description
8vo. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. xv + [i] + 320 pp. Bound in quarter leather over brown buckram; spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles. Speckled edges. Minor wear to extremities, and some foxing largely confined to flyleaves and preliminaries; otherwise a very good clean copy. Small ownership label on front pastedown. Illustrated by 38 chromolithograph plates, including frontispiece, and by engraved text figures. Systematic guide to Australasian marsupials and egg-laying mammals, including the American opossum and extinct species, by Richard Lydekker, F.R.S. (1849-1915), naturalist, geologist, and prolific natural history writer. He worked for the Geological Survey of India, 1874-81 and influenced the science of biogeography (Lydekker's line separating Asian and Australasian species), An appendix details species identified and named since the first edition of 1894. Preface by the series editor, ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909). Illustrated by a fine set of chromolithograph plates by Wyman and Sons Limited.
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