Anatomical and zoological researches : comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875 : and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella (Atlas Volume Only)

John Anderson

Bernard Quaritch, 1878

[Quite Rare: An early Zoological expedition to China's Yunnan province: Lepidoptera & Hymenoptera] V.2 Plate volume only. Folio, 33 cm. Rebound in leather 3/4 leather over brown cloth boards. Lacking some plates, only 38 present. Some colored.  'This important work furnishes the zoological results of two expeditions to S.W. China (Burma border) in 1868 and 1875' (Wood, p.623). According to Nissen, only 250 copies were printed. Anker 10; BM(NH) II, p.903; Fine Bird Books (1990), p.72; Nissen ZBI 109; Wood p.192 and 623; Zimmer p.9.  Sold with all faults.