LOT 3022
21st May 2019
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LOT 3022
BELL, Thomas. A History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea. London: John van Voorst, 1874. Signed by the author's assistant E.R. Alston to Captain H.W. Feilden, second edition, 8vo (219 x 133mm.) Numerous illustrations, a 4pp.extract from 'Mammalia of Norfolk' by Frank Norgate tipped-in. (Mild toning, pencil annotation to p.247.) Original blind-stamped green cloth (wear to spine ends, and fading). Note: the inscription on the half-title from E.R. Alston reads 'Captain H.W. Feilden, with E.R. Alston's kind regards, Feb 1874'. Underneath this, the recipient, polar explorer Henry Wemys Feilden has written in pencil 'I took this book to the Polar regions on boards H.M.S. Alert 1875-76'. The pencil annotation on p.247 is also by Feilden and refers to the sighting of seals on that expedition. Provenance: Captain Henry Wemys Feilden (bookplate to front free endpaper). - And one more volume by Thomas Bell, 'A History of British Reptiles', 1849, 8vo' (2).
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