Royal Natural History Volume 5, Section 10: Fishes, Etc.

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Text/interior is clean and unmarked. Text block shows wear at hinges to boards but is otherwise solid. Front endpaper is torn free after hinge. Green cloth boards with gold embossed lettering on cover and spine with black embossed jungle motif. Perforated stamp on title page and gift inscription on front endpaper with "1896". Corners worn and bumped, red "X" at bottom of page ends, general edge wear. Several color plates often with the tissue protective cover missing. A great many b&w engravings in fine and lavish detail. This book has pages 289-- 584 and covers Amphibians: newts, salamanders and coecillans, the primeval salamanders, Fishes: lung fishes and chimaeroids, the bony fishes and ganoids, sharks and rays, The Lowest Vertebrates and Their Allies: the lamprey group, the armoured primeval vertebrates, the lancelets, the sea-squirts or ascidians, the worm-like protochordates with index to vol. 5.

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Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.

Year: 1896

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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