Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) Vol. I - V. [And:] Supplement. Vol. VI-VIII

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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) Vol. I - V. [And:] Supplement. Vol. VI-VIII

London 1903-1940.

8 volumes, 4to, 27.3cm. Vol. I: pp. viii,1-500; vol. II: pp. [vi],501-1038: vol. III: pp. [vi],1039-1494; vol. IV: pp. [vi],1495-1956; vol. V: pp. [vi],1957-2404; vol. VI: pp. [vi],1-512,[2],48; vol. VII: pp. [vi],513-968; vol. VIII: pp. [vi],969-1480; main text printed in double columns. Hardbound in strong black library buckram cloth (vols. 1-5) and original dark green buckram (vols. 6-8), gilt lettering to backstrips. Few very unobtrusive library markings to each volume, engraved exlibris of the Library of the Ohio State University to front end-papers of supplement volumes. - An excellent complete set (almost without any marks of use) of the scarce original edition, not the 1992 Martino reprint which was reduced in size. The author/title catalogue of one of the world's finest collections on natural history. Includes many analytical and occasional descriptive notes, and comprising over 100,000 entries mostly with bibliographic details. A tool of reference indispensable to book collectors and historians of the biological and geological sciences.

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