Fishes, Living and Fossil: An Outline of Their Forms and Probable Relationships
- Cloth binding
- New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1895
New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition.
1895 SCARCE EARLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EVOLUTION OF FISHES.
9 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt publisher's emblem to front cover, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, bookplates of Frank J. Kleinhampl and Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper, xiv, 300 pp., frontispiece, 345 text figures. Wear to cover corners top 1/2 inch of spine perished, front hinge cracked, binding tight, pages unmarked. Good+ copy of scarce title, in custom archival mylar cover.
BASHFORD DEAN (1867-1928) was an American zoologist, specializing in ichthyology, and at the same time an expert in medieval and modern armor. He is the only person to have held concurrent positions at the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was Honorary Curator of Arms and Armor; the Metropolitan Museum purchased his collection of arms and armor after his death. Dean became an assistant for Professor John Strong Newberry who studied Devonian armored fishes. From the 1880s to the early 1900s, his scientific research allowed him to travel to Europe, Russia, Alaska, Japan, and the Pacific coast of the United States. He became professor of zoology in 1904.
PROVENANCE: FRANK JOSEPH KLEINHAMPL (1927 - 2007) American geologist.
Details
Title
Fishes, Living and Fossil: An Outline of Their Forms and Probable Relationships
Author
Dean, Bashford
Binding
Cloth binding
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Macmillan and Co.: New York and London
Date
1895
Edition
First edition