Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1917. Octavo, 42 uncoloured lithographs. Modern half red morocco marbled endpapers, all edges uncut, wrappers retained, a fine copy. The entire issue of Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Volume 30, number four. Samuel Garman (1843-1927) was a pupil of... More about The Galapagos Tortoises
London: British Museum, 1855. Quarto, 42 uncoloured lithographs. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, some blemishes, top edge gilt, a presentation copy dated 1885 from P. L. Sclater to the Rev. G. R. Fisk, small neat library stamps on title page and plates, a fine copy. John Edward Gray (1800-1875)... More about Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum, part one: Testudinata...
London: British Museum, 1877. Small folio, 55 uncoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges speckled, inscribed for the Earl Enniskillen by the author, with the Earl's handsome circular bookplate. A superb copy. William Willoughby Cole, third Earl of Enniskillen, FRS (1807-1886), known by his courtesy title... More about The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the Collection of the British Museum