Author: Zoological Society of London
Title: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume XVI.
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co., for the Society, [1901]-1903. Large 4to (31.7 x 25.0 cm). 427 pp.; 38 plates, of which several in fine chromolithography. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. = Rare complete, single volume, with eight fine papers on various zoological topics, including Sir Edwin Ray Lankester on the recently discovered okapi (introducing a new genus, Okapia), Beddard on the enigmatic pigmy whale; Howes and Swinnerton on the mysterious New Zealand Tuatara ‘lizard’; Boulenger on fishes of Lake Tanganyika, and Budget on the development of West African fish; Degen on the origin of feathering, and two more. Most are nicely illustrated, in particular the okapi, pigmy whale (skeleton, on a very large plate) and both fish papers. Provenance: bookplate of the British zoologist Richard Assheton (1863-1915), dated 1915. Tiny label of a Cambridge bookbinder on the front pastedown; leather dry, a bit flaking at the board edges and spine ends. A few plates with light, mostly marginal foxing (much less so than usual), otherwise a very good, complete copy. Cat. BM(NH) p. 2397; Cat. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 605 (for Lankester); Dean I, p. 165 (for Boulenger).

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