An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiide in the Collection of the United States National Museum, With Remarks on Some Specimens in Other American Museums.
- Washington: GPO, 1910
Washington: GPO, 1910. Some of the rarest cetaceans. With annotations on plates by Joseph Curtis Moore (1914-1995), an expert on beaked whales, and co-discoverer of Hector's beaked whale as a separate species, and Hubb's beaked whale, among others. The book is also scarce. Not in Jenkins. Water staining on outer edges of some plates. Bound in later boards with gold spine lettering.. 30.5 cm., 89 pp. plus 42 b/w plates.
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Title
An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiide in the Collection of the United States National Museum, With Remarks on Some Specimens in Other American Museums.
Author
True, Frederick.
Condition
Fine
Publisher
GPO: Washington
Date
1910