Author: CW Brazenor
Title: The Mammals of Victoria and the Dental Characteristics of Monotremes and Australian Marsupials
Description: Melbourne, Brown, Prior, Anderson PTY , 1950. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this study of Australian mammals of Victoria signed by the author. The first edition of this work. Handbook No. 1 of the National Museum of Victoria Australia. Concerned with the Australian fauna, in particular the mamma representatives including egg-laying mammals, pouched mammals, placental mammals, and dental characteristics of monotremes and Australian marsupials. Signed by the author to title page. Featuring coloured frontispiece and black and white line drawings in text. From the library of Desmond Morris, a zoologist best known for his 1967 sociobiological work "The Naked Ape". Alongside achieving great acclaim as a zoologist, Morris was also known for being an ethnologist and surrealist painter, and for popular television programmes, including "Zoo Time". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Desmond Morris bookplate to front pastedown. Previous ownership ink inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Near previous ownership signature to verso title page, bleeding through faintly to title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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