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    By Frederick Stratten Russell
    Cambridge   Cambridge University Press
    11" by 9" xiii [i], 530 [ii]pp
    A fine copy of the first edition in the original cloth with gilt jellyfish design, with thirty-five coloured plates and more than three-hundred further illustrations.
    By Frederick Stratten Russell

    1953 The Medusae of the British Isles

    Cambridge   Cambridge University Press
    11" by 9" xiii [i], 530 [ii]pp
    A fine copy of the first edition in the original cloth with gilt jellyfish design, with thirty-five coloured plates and more than three-hundred further illustrations.
    £165.00
    : 2kgs / : 986R17
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    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition in the publisher's original cloth with pictorial gilt jellyfish design.

    With thirty-five coloured plates to the rear of the work and more than three-hundred further illustrations in-text. Collated, complete.

    A fascinating illustrated study of sea life in the British Isles by English marine biologist Frederick Stratten Russell. From 1924 Russell worked for the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, becoming its director in 1945.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth with pictorial gilt design. Externally, excellent with some fading to boards and the odd mark to the boards. Light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned and the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few.

    Near Fine

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