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Monograph on The British Mammalia of the Pleistocene Period. Order, Carnivora; Family, Felidae; Genus, Felis; Species, Felis Spelaea, Goldfuss. Completed in the first 3 individual Parts (Parts I,II, & III) of Volume 1. Part III also includes a description of the Skull and Lower Jaw of the Felis Lynx. **. All Large 4to ( 279 by 217 mm). Part 1. Issued in 1866. Pp. l, 28, Plates I-V. (Plate I folding). 5 b/w lithographed Plates with numerous figures, and all plates with associated description page. Original blue paper covers and backstrip missing. Gatherings loose and most pages and plates only just held with a couple of stitches. Most text pages unopened. Page edges lightly toned. Some faint scattered foxing to the plate description pages, otherwise in good clean bright condition. Plates clean and bright looking; Part II. Issued 1868, Pp. 29-124, Plates VI-XIX (9 double page). 14 b/w lithographed Plates with numerous figures, and all plates with associated description page. Original blue covers with white label with black printed text. Upper cover detached, but present. Backstrip missing with some signs remaining. Covers a little dusty looking. Page edges lightly toned. Some faint scattered foxing to the plate description pages, otherwise in good clean bright condition. Plates clean and bright looking; Part III. Issued 1869, Pp. 125-176, Plates XX-XXII, XXIIa, XXIIb, XXIII (2 double page). 6 b/w lithographed Plates with numerous figures, and all plates with associated description page. Original blue covers with white label with black printed text. Parts of Backstrip missing. Small loss to top edge of lower cover. Covers a little dusty looking. Page edges lightly toned. Some faint scattered foxing to the plate description pages, otherwise in good clean bright condition. Plates clean and bright looking; ** These 3 parts cover The British Pleistocene Felidae. Felis Spelaea. Goldfuss. The double page lithograph plates are quite striking. The contents of the introduction includes; Prehistoric Caverns, Prehistoric Alluvia and Peat Mosses, Prehistoric Mammalia, Prehistoric Caverns and River Deposits….It mentions The peat of Hilgay, in Norfolk, has furnished the Beaver and Irish Elk"….Part III also includes a description of the Skull and Lower Jaw of the Felis Lynx. The remains were found in Yew Tree cave, Derbyshire. It describes the conditions under which the discovery was made. The discovery was said to belong to Felis Cervaria, the Lynx of Northern Asia. ** Dawkins, Sir William Boyd (1837-1929), geologist and palaeontologist. Between 1861 and 1869 he was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and became a junior colleague of T. H. Huxley at the Royal School of Mines in Jermyn Street, London. For eight years he mapped parts of the Wealden and other formations in Kent and the Thames valley, which furthered his interest in mammalian remains in the river gravels. This led to the publication of numerous memoirs and papers, exploring subjects as diverse as the dentition of the woolly rhinoceros and the origins of the cave lion, and to his election as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1867. (ODNB) **. William Ayshford Sanford, DL (1818-1902) was a landowner, naturalist and Liberal Party politician, who served as Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1852 to 1855. After returning to England, Sanford is noted for his interest in natural history, especially the palaeontology of the Somerset area. Seller Inventory # 002617
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