Description:
Hardcover. Good. Lovely copy! Binding and text are clean and sound. Small gouge in front cover, also small stain just below the 'n' in Rand. Long narrow "dent" to the right about n=midway up the cover. ON face page someone marked out [two long magic marker lines] an inscription. Artwork is adorable.
The Ancylidae of South Africa by Walker, Bryant
by Walker, Bryant
The Ancylidae of South Africa
by Walker, Bryant
- Used
(London: Printed for the author by Adlard and Son and West Newman Ltd., 1923). 250 x 160 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 82; several text figures and two plates, one of which folding. Institutional hand-stamp and author's faint Compliments stamp to upper cover; wrappers rather foxed and worn, with archival tape reinforcing to spine; edges, plates and final text page foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. Uncommon title: OCLC does not find any South African repositories holding this work. A preliminary report on specimens of this mollusc family collected from the region south of the Zambesi and Kunene rivers, written by the leading American authority on the subject. .
- Bookseller Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Book Condition Used
- Publisher (London: Printed for the author by Adlard and Son and West Newman Ltd., 1923)
- Keywords Freshwater molluscs. Snails. Taxonomy. Gastropods Natural History