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The Fishes of the Nile (Text + Plates)

Name: The Fishes of the Nile (Text + Plates)
Author: Boulenger, G.A.

Book Description

97 lithographed plates (some folding), 6 plates, text figs. 2 vols, 4to. Text: recent buckram, teg, ex-lib. copy with stamps to title and final pages only. Plates: orig, buckram with corners a little bumped and owner's name to endpaper. Overall a very good set.

Dealer Notes

Text: scarce original edition (1907) published for the Egyptian Government by Hugh Rees, Ltd; Plates: reprinted (1965) - facsmile of the fine lithographed plates by J. Green and P. Smith. First major work on the fishes of the Nile. George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) was a distinguished Belgian-British zoologist, well known for his monographs on amphibians, reptiles and fishes.
Nissen ZBI, 492.

Author Boulenger, G.A.

Date 1907-1965

Binding HB

Publisher Hugh Rees (for the Egyptian Government) / Wheldon & Wesley

Pages li, 578

Price: £350.00

Offered by Pemberley Books

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