With the bookplate of J.L.B. & M.M. Smith to front pastedown (over that of Robin Stobbs who was also at the then J.L.B. Smith Institute).
Smith was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct. The fish was named Latimeria chalumnae after Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer who saved the fish from an East London trawler's catch in 1938.
Blue cloth boards 1064pp illustrated colour & b/w plates.
Stanford University Press. 2nd edition 1971.
Neat ownership inscription (Stobbs) to front pastedown above the bookplate. VG++ condition in matching VG+ dustwrapper.
ISBN 9780804707367
Our Ref: #17931
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- Overall Condition: VG++
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