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Pattedyr-Slaegter I-III

by Winge, H.

Publisher : H. Hagerups Forlag
Published In : Copenhagen
Illustrations : portrait frontis, 1 plate, text figs

Description:

First edition. Text Danish. Complete in 3 volumes, I: Monotremata, Marsupialia, Insectivora, Chiroptera, Edentata; II: Rodentia, Carnivora, Primates; III: Ungulata, Cetacea. A critical revision and systematic study of mammals, based largely on the extensive collections at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, where Herluf Winge worked. The third volume was published posthumously from the author's completed manuscript.

Condition

3 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few neat ink stamps. First volume with signature of C[harles] W[illiam] Andrews (1866-1924), palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London.