Each section has added t.p. and separate pagination. Imprint on added title pages: London : Reeve, Benham, and Reeve

"Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty."

Plates signed William Wing, F. Marryat, B. Waterhouse Hawkins, A. Adams, Sowerby

Some of the plates are hand-colored

Errata: at foot of p. xv

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Preface -- References to plates -- Vertebrata / by John Edward Gray. 1849 -- Fishes / by Sir John Richardson. 1848 -- Mollusca / by Arthur Adams and Lovell Reeve. 1848 -- Crustacea / by Arthur Adams & Adam White. 1848

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SCNHRB has five copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013480702) lacking added, divisional t.p.'s

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library. Stamped on half title: William H. Dall, Sectional Library, Division of Mollusks. Embossed on t.p.: U.S. National Museum Division of Mollusks Dall Collection

SCNHRB c. 1 embossed on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 230127; stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Libraries Apr 22 1987

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013480744) lacking added, divisional t.p.'s

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in blue library buckram, title in gilt on spine

SCNHRB c. 3 (39088013480710) has Preface, References to plates, and the Mollusca section only

SCNHRB c. 3 stamped on front paste-down: E Libris B.B. Woodward January 1931

SCNHRB c. 3 stamped on front paste-down: S. Stillman Berry .... Redlands, California 1962; bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry

SCNHRB c. 3 stamped on t.p.: Sold by order of Council Linnean Society, May 1962

SCNHRB c. 3 half bound in blue sheepskin and blue cloth, title in gilt on spine; original green printed paper wrappers to the 3 pts. of the Mollusca section bound-in

SCNHRB c. 4 (39088013480751) is of the Mollusca section only

SCNHRB c. 4 has bookplate: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library. Stamped on front free endpaper and t.p.: Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library. Stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Libraries Apr 22 1987

SCNHRB c. 4 bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine, original green printed paper wrappers to the 3 pts. of the Mollusca section bound-in at end

SCNHRB c. 5 (39088013480793) consists of [4], 18 p., plates I-IV, VI (plus 4 fragments) of pt. I of the Mollusca section

SCNHRB c. 5 stamped on divisional t.p.: Smithsonian Libraries May 16 1980, withdrawn

SCNHRB c. 5 disbound, housed in a cardboard archival portfolio

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