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RICHARDSON, John & John Edward GRAY (editors). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the Years 1839 to 1843 ... Mammalia ... Birds ... Ichthyology ... Insects of New Zealand ... Reptiles, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844-48. 5 parts in one volume, 4° (309 x 240mm.), hand-coloured engraved map and 153 lithographed plates only (of 1980, 41 hand-coloured including 29 of birds (occasional spotting and staining), contemporary green half calf (rubbed). Anker 185; Ferguson 3895; Nissen IVB 390; Wood 536; Zimmer pp. 521-2.
RICHARDSON, John & John Edward GRAY (editors). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the Years 1839 to 1843 ... Mammalia ... Birds ... Ichthyology ... Insects of New Zealand ... Reptiles, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844-48. 5 parts in one volume, 4° (309 x 240mm.), hand-coloured engraved map and 153 lithographed plates only (of 1980, 41 hand-coloured including 29 of birds (occasional spotting and staining), contemporary green half calf (rubbed). Anker 185; Ferguson 3895; Nissen IVB 390; Wood 536; Zimmer pp. 521-2.

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RICHARDSON, John & John Edward GRAY (editors). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the Years 1839 to 1843 ... Mammalia ... Birds ... Ichthyology ... Insects of New Zealand ... Reptiles, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844-48. 5 parts in one volume, 4° (309 x 240mm.), hand-coloured engraved map and 153 lithographed plates only (of 1980, 41 hand-coloured including 29 of birds (occasional spotting and staining), contemporary green half calf (rubbed). Anker 185; Ferguson 3895; Nissen IVB 390; Wood 536; Zimmer pp. 521-2.

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