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Lot 89
[EXTINCT ANIMALS] Group of five works.
Comprises MARSH, OTHNIEL CHARLES. Odontornithes: A Monograph of the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America. Wahington: GPO, 1880. Publisher's green cloth; GRIEVE, SYMINGTON. The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.). Its History, Archaeology, and Remains. London & Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, 1885. Publisher's mustard cloth with paper label to spine; Owen, Richard, (Sir). Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1876. First edition. Publisher's dark green cloth, with 70 lithographed plates after C.L. Griesbach (several folding), xii, 88 pages on guards alternatingly bound to fit plate size; OUDEMANS, A.C. Dodo-studiën. Naar aanleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteen met Dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere. Amsterdam: J. Müller, 1917. First edition. Publisher's boards; and SMITH, J.L.B. A Living Coelacanthid from South America. London: Royal Society Transactions, 1839. Later cloth. Condition generally very good; the upper cover of the last volume, an offprint, a trifle gnawed by an extinct animal.
C From the Collection of Quentin Keynes; Gift to his American doctor
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