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[ZOOLOGY-COLOR PLATE] GRAY, JOHN EDWARD. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher ... During the Years 1836-42. Mammalia.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1843. Parts I and II (only), modern gray cloth retaining the original publisher's wrappers (front and rear) bound-in. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (31 x 24.5 cm); title-leaf, 20 pp. text, 8 hand-colored lithographs; 21-36 pp., plates 9-18, two of which are uncolored. The parts covers exhibiting some soiling, the plates generally fine.
Belcher's voyage was intended to conclude Frederick William Beechey's coastal survey of South America in the Sulphur, after Beechey became ill and was invalided out in 1836. He spent three years on the coast of South America, before receiving orders to return to England. On arriving in Singapore he was sent to China because of the war there, and he did not return to England until 1842, when the account of his circumnavigation was published. This is all published of Gray's Mammalia; a total of 85 plates in all covering birds, molluscs, flora etc. were eventually issued. c.f. Anker 175; Nissen IVB 383; Sabin 31945.
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