The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum / By Albert C. L. G. Günther.

British Museum (Natural History) - Department of Zoology

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/4999

Author

Imprint

London :: Printed by order of the Trustees,, 1877.

Physical Description

iv, [2], 96 p., LIV litho. pl. (some fold.) : illus. (map.) 34 cm. (4°).

Responsibility Note

With lithographic plates signed as drawn by C. L. Griesbach, G. H. Ford, or W. H. Wesley; drawn and lithographed by R. Mintern; and printed by Mintern Bros.

Provenance

Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1879.

Binding Note

19th-century tan ribbed cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt: 'GIGANTIC LAND-TORTOISES. / [short rule] / BRITISH MUSEUM.' ; spine unlettered.

Subject

Testudinidae.

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