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 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. V. Part XVI. Report on the Marsupialia. [Report on some points in the anatomy of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), cuscus (Phalangista maculata), and phascogale (Phascogale calura), collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876; with an account on the comparative anatomy of the intrinsic muscles and the nerves of the mammalian pes].

750.00 €

Schierenberg Bookshop Antiquariaat

(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

PayPal
Credit card
Bank transfer
Find out how to use
your Carta del Docente
Find out how to use
your Carta della cultura giovani e del merito

Details

Author

Cunningham, D. J.

Description

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1882. 4to (31.0 x 24.5 cm). [ii], 192 pp.; five text figures, 13 lithographed plates. Disbound. = A rare part from the famous Challenger Reports. It deals with the anatomy of three Australian marsupials, included the mysterious Tasmanian wolf, now generally considered to be extinct, and the now threatened phascogale. The plates are fine and detailed. Skeleton parts are illustrated too. Written by the British vertebrate zoologist Daniel John Cunningham (1850-1909). H.M.S. Challenger set sail in December 1872 for a circumnavigation which took 3½ years before the ship finally reached Great Britain again, crossing 130 thousand kilometers. During the voyage, nearly 5,000 new species belonging to almost every known animal group were collected. The voyage of the Challenger is widely regarded as the most successful scientific expedition of the 19th century. First gathering near-detached; plates very slightly wavy, last three faintly damp-stained in the margin; marginal spotting to the first text leaf, but apart from this a very good, unmarked copy. Nissen ZBI, 997.