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HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.


Folio (375 x 304 mm). 12 double-page lithographed plates by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. (Dampstaining to lower corner, some browning.) Original brown gilt-lettered cloth (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear). Provenance: Clinton Hall Association, N.Y., Mercantile Library (stamps on plates).

FIRST EDITION, "the figures in the present Atlas are intended simply to aid students in comprehending the general arrangement of the bony framework of the Vertebrata, and some of its most important modifications" (Introduction). Nissen ZBI 2064. 


Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum

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