The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum /. By Albert C. L. G. Günther.
British Museum
Category
Books
Date
1877
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh
NT 631819
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv, [1], 96 p., LIV leaves of plates (part fold.) :. illus. (map.) ;. 34 cm. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen (1807-1886). Inscribed for the Earl Enniskillen by the author (front free endpaper). Bookseller's description loosely inserted. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper over boards; spine with five raised bands with gilt rolls; red title label 'Gigantic land-tortoises Günther'; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
British Museum, author Günther, Albert C. L. G. 1830-1914. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), author