Lot 107
  • 107

Belcher, Sir Edward--Adams, Arthur, editor

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang. London: Reeve and Benham, 1850
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (313 x 240mm.), [iii]-xvi, Vertebrata: 44pp., 8 coloured plates; Fishes: 28pp., 10 lithographed plates; Mollusca: [iii]-x, 88pp., 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates; Crustacea: viii, 66pp., 13 lithographed plates, 4 coloured by hand, total plates: 55, 36 coloured by hand, half-title, dark blue straight-grained half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers

Provenance

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, blindstamps

Literature

Nissen ZBI 289

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

VERY RARE zoological reports from the Samarang voyage. Americana Exchange records only two copies at auction since 1947.