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A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.
A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.
A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.
A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.
A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.

SELOUS, Edmund.

Romance of the Animal World. Interesting Descriptions of the Strange & Curious in Natural History

London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1915.

£150.00
£150.00

Romance of the Animal World.

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A scarce and pleasingly bound copy of Selous's investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.

8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); bookplate to front pastedown, black and white frontispiece illustration with small tear, a further sixteen full-page plates illustrated by Lancelot Speed & S.T. Dadd, very good internal condition; full tree calf with Eton College armorial in gilt to upper and lower boards, gilt rolled border, spine elaborately decorated in gilt in 6 compartments, with raised bands, two contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces in gilt, minimal bumping at extremities, marbled edges and endpapers, a very handsome copy; 330 pp.

Stock code 124181

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A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.

Romance of the Animal World.

£150.00
£150.00

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