Author: Wood, C. A.
Title: An Introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology based chiefly on the titles of the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana [The Gest Library of Chinese Literature], and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1931. Large 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Full colour frontispiece, xix, 643 pp. Navy buckram with gilt title on the spine. = First edition of an indispensable reference work in the field of vertebrate zoology, usually referred to as "Casey Wood". The fine, full colour frontispiece shows a dodo. ADDED: this copy comes with the now rare original printed 4 pp. sales-leaflet which includes a request for sending in reviews. Very slight shelf-wear; old stamp on title, otherwise a near-fine copy.

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