A Practical Handbook of British Beetles. Vol. I-II
- Publisher : Witherby
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 170 pages of line drawings
Description:
1st edition. Vol. I: Text; Vol. II: Plates.
Condition
2 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt., top edge gilt. Very good, clean set; minor bumps to corners of boards. Signature of A.J. Cain (1921-1999), dated 1946, to endpapers; Cain was an evolutionary biologist and ecologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. This copy also once belonged to R.B. Freeman (1915-1986), zoologist, bibliographer of natural history and book collector, and contains his printed postcard, with a few pencil notes on prices.
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