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.
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.
Elecresource
Contents:
v. 1. Arachnida-Araneidea / by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. 1889-1902 -- v. 2. Arachnida Araneidea and Opiliones / by Frederick O. Pickard-Cambridge. 1897-1905