Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2nd Series - Vol. 1-11

Description:

With numerous lithographic plates (some hand-col, several of birds by Keulemans). Journal includes contributions by the leading naturalists of the period including: A. G. Bulter; P. Herbert Carpenter; Francis Day; Philip Henry Gosse; A. Günther; W.F. Kirby; E. Ray Lankester; Sir John Lubbock; Patrick Manson; George Mivart, Richard Owen; Edward B. Poulton; R. Bowdler Sharpe; G. Elliot Smith; Lord Walsingham; J.O. Westwood.

Major monographs include: Vol. 3, Sir John Lubbock, A Revisional Monograph of Recent Ephemeridae or Mayflies, pp 352, 65 plates; Vol. 4, Thomas Davidson, A Monograph of Recent Brachiopoda, pp 248, 30 plates;

Condition

11 vols, 4to, bound in recent uniform buckram, with leather title pieces to spines. Very nice run, originally from the library of Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. (1861-1943); each volume bears a label to the endpaper, 'Presented to the library of the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S.' A few neat ink stamps.

Lacks vol. 11(3) - Foraminifera of the West of Scotland, by Heron-Allen & Earland.