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<dl><dd>"Howlett and Son, printers ... Soho"--Verso of t.p</dd>
<dd>Plates drawn by E. Lear, J.D.C. Sowerby, and Zeitter, and engraved by T. Landseer and Zeitter; maps drawn and coloured by Lieut. E. Belcher</dd>
<dd>The adjusted page count includes pages numbered 9* through 13*, inserted as "Additional observations" after the Mammalia section</dd>
<dd>Hand-colored ill</dd>
<dd>Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets</dd>
<dd>Introduction [by F.W. Beechey]--Mammalia, by J. Richardson.--Ornithology, by N.A. Vigors.--Fishes, by G.T. Lay, and E.T. Bennett.--Crustacea, by R. Owen.--Reptiles, by J.E. Gray.--Batrachians, by J.E. Gray.--Molluscous animals, and their shells, by J.E. Gray [and G.B. Sowerby]--Geology [ed. by W. Buckland, from the notes of Lieut. Belcher and of Mr. A. Collie]</dd>
<dd>Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration</dd>
<dd>BM (Nat. hist.)</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB has two copies</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 (39088006768683) has stamp on p. [v]: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun. 11, 1900; accession no. 167411</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has a few pencil markings and annotations throughout</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has the publisher's blind-stamped green embossed cloth binding; the spine cover is wanting</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 (39088010284032) has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library; with his stamp on t.p</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has an offprint from The veliger, v. 10, no. 4 (Apr. 1968), p. 350-352, "Itinerary of the voyage of H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-1828" by Joseph Rosewater, inserted at the front of the volume. A printed bookseller's catalog citation for this ed. of Beechey is mounted on the verso of the first page of the offprint</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has some pencil annotations and markings throughout; the pages and plates are slightly cropped, with some loss of text (primarily plate numbering)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has a modern brown embossed cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine; the preliminary leaves have been reinforced with transparent sheets of paper</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Blossom (Ship); Zoology; Zoology; Geology; Geology</div>
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<dl><dd>Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856</dd>
<dd>Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865</dd>
<dd>Lay, G. Tradescant (George Tradescant)</dd>
<dd>Bennett, Edward Turner, 1797-1836</dd>
<dd>Owen, Richard, 1804-1892</dd>
<dd>Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875</dd>
<dd>Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854</dd>
<dd>Buckland, William, 1784-1856</dd>
<dd>Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877</dd>
<dd>Collie, Alexander</dd>
<dd>Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill</dd>
<dd>Zeitter, John Christian, d. 1862, engraver</dd>
<dd>Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880, engraver</dd>
<dd>Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871, ill</dd>
<dd>Vigors, Nicholas Aylward, 1785-1840</dd>
<dd>Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Great Britain. Admiralty</dd></dl></div>
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