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Biologia Centrali-Americana. [10-11], Arachnida-Araneidea

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Author:
Pickard-Cambridge, O (Octavius) 1828-1917  Search this
Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius 1860-1905  Search this
Godman, Frederick Du Cane 1834-1919  Search this
Salvin, Osbert 1835-1898  Search this
Ill:
Hollick, A. T.  Search this
Printer of plates:
Wilson, Edwin 1855?-1915  Search this
Cambridge Engraving Co.  Search this
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company  Search this
Former owner:
Casey, Thos. L (Thomas Lincoln) 1857-1925 DSI  Search this
Printer:
Taylor & Francis  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [93] leaves of plates in various foliations : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Central America
Mexico
Date:
1889
1905
1889-1905
Notes:
Publication information from NUC pre-56, v. 58, p. 226.
"Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street"--Colophon.
Issued in parts.
Cover-title: Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.
August 1898-1904 edited by F. Du Cane Godman.
Collation of each v.: v. 1 [=v. 10 of the BCA]: xv, 317, [1] p., 39 leaves of plates; v. 2 [=v. 11 of the BCA]: ix, [1], 610 p., 54 leaves of plates. In addition, each leaf of plates is accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress text.
Plates signed: A.T. Hollick del.; Lith. & imp. Camb. Sci. Inst. Co.; Cambridge Engraving Co.; Fredk. O. Pickard-Cambridge, del., pinx.; Edwin Wilson, Cambridge; E. Wilson, Lith., Cambridge.
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (v. 1, 39088010899789; v. 2, 39088010896850) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution. The Thomas Lincoln Casey Library, 1925.
SCNHRB copy of v. 1 has laid in: a printed invoice form completed by hand ([1] p.), from the bookseller Ed. AndreĢ, at Beaune.
SCNHRB copy of v. 1 and 2 have old brown half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, and red sprinkled edges.
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Contents:
v. 1. Arachnida-Araneidea / by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. 1889-1902 -- v. 2. Arachnida Araneidea and Opiliones / by Frederick O. Pickard-Cambridge. 1897-1905
Topic:
Spiders  Search this
Call number:
QH11 .B615 v. 10-11
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_534230