Travel and Exploration
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Watson, R. B.
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Zoology. Vol. XV. Part XLII: Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda. By Rev. Robert Boog Watson, F.L.S.
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1886. 4to (29.2 x 24.6 cm). 761 [756, 5] pp.; 53 lithographed plates, partly tinted plates, and six woodcuts in the text. Original dark green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Gilt title on the spine. Brown endpapers.
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Ergebnisse der botanischen Expedition der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach Süd Brasilien im Jahre 1901.
Wien, Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908-1931. In three volumes. 4to (29.1 x 23.5 cm; the volume in wrappers larger). 772 pp.; 65 engraved and lithographed plates of which 15 in full colour. [I(1908): vi, 312 pp.; 26 plates, 12 text figures, errata leaf (loosely inserted); II(1927): 358 pp.; 24 plates, 15 text figures; III (1931) 142 pp. (numbered 313-454); 15 plates, 11 text figures]. Original half cloth over printed boards (Band 79, Parts I and III), or printed wrappers (Band 83, part II).
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