WALKER'S MAMMALS OF THE WORLD--4th Edn

by Nowak, R.; & Paradiso, J.; eds

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Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins Univ.,, 1984. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplates; no card pockets or spine marks/labels; rubberstamp on top/bottom edges of book blocks; otherwise, condition rather good.. + index. Very profusely illustrated with b&w photos & drawings. 2nd prtg. ||| For 30+ years Ernest P. Walker (1891-1969), Asst. Director of Washington D.C. National Zoo (1930-56), with 6 co-authors compiled `Mammals of the World.' (Fairfield Osborn called it `a unique, highly valuable contribution to zoological literature' when it was first issued in 1964.) ||| This expanded, revised edn. covers 19 orders, 134 families, 1018 genera, 4154 species, almost all illustrated--arguably the most thorough, extensively described, lavishly illustrated record of post-Pleistocene mammals of the world.