The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur : under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42

Title Variants

Alternative: Zoology

Alternative: Zoology of the voyage of the Sulphur

Related Titles

Related/Analytical: Birds

Related/Analytical: Fish

Related/Analytical: Mammalia

Related/Analytical: Mollusca

By

Hinds, Richard Brinsley, 1812-1847 , author, editor
Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877
Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 , author
Gould, John 1804-1881 , author
Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 , author
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850 , printer of plates.
Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1889 , illustrator
Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884 , illustrator
Great Britain. Admiralty
Day & Haghe, , lithographer.
Hullmandel & Walton, , lithographer.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Smith, Elder, 1844 [i.e. 1843-1846]

Notes

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

Issued in 12 parts from 1843-1846; both t.p.'s are dated 1844.

Vol. 1: [2], 150 p., plates 1-64; v. 2: [2], 72, iv, [1] p., plates 1-21.

Plates ill. by J. Gould, B. Waterhouse Hawkins, D. Mitchell, W. Mitchell, and G.B. Sowerby, Jr.; lithographers and printers of plates include Day & Haghe, C. Hullmandel, and Hullmandel & Walton.

The plates of mammals, birds and mollusks are colored (except 2 plates depicting mammal skulls); the plates of fish are uncolored.

Each section in v. 1 has special half-title.

Contents: v. 1. Mammalia / by J.E. Gray. Birds / by J. Gould. Fish / by J. Richardson -- v. 2. Mollusca / by R.B. Hinds.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | I, 290

BM (Nat. hist.), | v. 2, p. 847

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., | p. 304

Subjects

America , Animals , Oceania , Sulphur (Ship)

Call Number

QL5 .S9

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.53764
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/16017557
OCLC: 1237639