A HAND-BOOK TO THE MARSUPIALIA AND MONOTREMATA. (Lloyd's Natural History).

LYDEKKER, RICHARD.

Verlag: Edward Lloyd, Limited, 12, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street., London, 1896

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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. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE MAMMALS NATURAL HISTORY ANIMALS AUSTRALIA 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28119

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Titel: A HAND-BOOK TO THE MARSUPIALIA AND ...

Verlag: Edward Lloyd, Limited, 12, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896