Lot 713
  • 713

Kellett, Henry--Richardson, John

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald, under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett, R.N., C.B., during the Years 1845-51... edited by Professor Edward Forbes. London: Lovell Reeve, 1854
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (310 x 235mm.), half-title, xii, 172pp., 33 lithographed plates printed on india paper [17 folding], red straight-grained half morocco, blue marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt

Provenance

Newcastle-on-Tyne Public Library, stamp on title (recto and verso)

Literature

Forbes 2049; Lada-Mocarski 139; Nissen ZBI 3389; Sabin 71033; not in Hill

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

This work was published in three parts over a number of years, beginning in 1852, and much of the text concerns fossil bones from Eschscholtz Bay. It appears to be rare at auction. This copy is uniformly bound with The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald (lot 711).