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

Lydekker, Richard (ed.)

Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., 1896

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 124960

Bibliographic Details

Title: Royal Natural History Volume 5, Section 10: ...

Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.

Publication Date: 1896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Ex Library.