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Back The Naturalist in Australia.

Saville-Kent, William. The Naturalist in Australia. 1st. Ed. Pub. Chapman & Hall. 1897

pp.xv, 320 plus one page advert. Royal 4to. Illustrated with 50 full-page collotype plates and 9 coloured plates by Keulemans and others. Scattered foxing to photographic frontis., o/w. contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Spine professionally relaid, boards beautifully clean; showing some minor rubbing on corners. Scarce; even more so in this condition.

William Saville-Kent (1845-1908) was an English marine biologist of high regard; a member of both the Zoological Society of London and the Linnean Society. Alongside this super work, he was author of ‘A Manual of the Infusoria (1880-82) and his excellent study, ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ (1893).

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