Cunningham Captain J (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1911. No Edition Remarks. 27 pages. No dust jacket. Card covered boards with spine strip. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably foxed. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Ink stain to front board. Top corner has been squashed.

First edition; 4to (30 x 24 cm); 3 in-text figures, institutional bookplate to pastedown; publisher's original cloth backed printed boards, discreet institutional stamp to front board, little wear to extremities, a very good copy; [ii], 2, 27 pp. Scarce scientific paper on the practical experiment of ridding fleas from infested clothing in the Indian sun. The copy of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow.

Hardcover. Imperial Edition. All 14 volumes Very Good in boards. All 14 volumes number 624 from a limited 1000 copies. Gilded top text block edge for all 14 volumes. Light shelfwear on spine and panel corners of all 14 volumes. Front hinge starting on "Mrs. Sarah Siddons" Vol. 1, "Lord Chesterfield" Vol. 1, "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2, "Nell Gwyn". Light soiling on front panel of "Count de Grammont", "Nell Gwyn", and "The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington". Light soiling on rear panel of "Mrs. Sarah Siddons" Vol. 1 and "The Sheridans" Vol. 2, "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2, and "The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington". Small water stain on front panel of "Lord Chesterfield" Vol. 1, and "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2. Light scratching on front panel of "Lady Hamilton & Lord Nelson" Vol. 1. And "Mrs. Mary Robinson".

Leather. 1st edition. 1st ed., quarto, pp.(iii), 192, stamp of Zoology Dept (London) to upper title. page 99 and last text page, 13 full-page sepia lithographic plates, small repair to upper title page and some wear and chipping to edges of last plate, bound in kangaroo skin, gilt ruled and blind-embossed borders, ornate gilt dec spine and gilt titled leather label. Very good condition. Rare. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76. Most of the report relates to the findings on the Thylacine and published as Volume 5 (Zoology) of "Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger". Includes work on Cuscus and Phascogale. The Tasmanian tiger or Thylacine was an iconic Australian marsupial predator that was hunted to extinction in the early 1900's. During H.M.S. Challenger's stay in Sydney in 1874, two specimens (male and female) of the thylacine were presented to the scientists on board by Charles Du Cane, the then Governor of Tasmania and taken back to the British vertebrate zoologist and anatomist, Dr Daniel John Cunningham. Much of what we know today about the internal anatomy of the thylacine is derived from Cunningham's meticulous anatomical dissections and published here in this report. Eight plates (of thirteen) in the report relate to the now extinct Thylacine: Plates I, IV, V, VI, IX, X, XII, XII.