TRANSACTIONS. VOLS. 1-31, 33-35.
[Zoological Society of London]:
London: Richard Taylor; [later:] Taylor & Francis, for the Society, 1835-1965. Thirty-four volumes, thirty of the old series and four volumes of the later continuation. The first twenty volumes with 1305 plates, of which 870 are tinted or colored, either lithographic, engraved, collotype. The remaining ten volumes of the old series have about 300 more halftone plates. Printed by Day & Son, Hanhart, the Mintern Brothers and others, after Edward Gould, J. Smith, Joseph Wolf, J.G. Keulemans, J.O. Westwood. Pages 325-34 of Vol. 20 in facsimile. Large and small quarto, 12 x 9 1/8 and 9 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Uniformly bound in modern brown half morocco, gilt, t.e.g. by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. A few captions just trimmed, slight scattered foxing. A fine run of this illustrious journal, including papers by most of the great zoologists of the past two centuries. The Zoological Society (of London, as it later became), was set up to document the discoveries of the second great era of exploration, which began with the government sponsored exploring expeditions of the late 18th century. As new animals were discovered in all parts of the globe, the society sought to describe them and hire the best artists and lithographers to illustrate them. The TRANSACTIONS were designed to publish the more important papers presented to the Zoological Society, especially because of the plates which often accompanied the volumes. Large runs of the TRANSACTIONS rarely appear, and when they do they are usually ex-library and not uniformly and handsomely bound. Sets such as the present are very rare. NISSEN (ZBI) 4788.
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