Australian Marsupials and Monotremes
by Gould, John -illustrator : Dixon, Joan M. - modern text by:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385096860
- ISBN 13
- 9780385096867
- Seller
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Clunes, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company 1975. folio, hard cover, black textured cloth with laid-down illustration of 2 platypus to front board, gilt lettering, plain black card slipcase, 143pp including indices of scientific and common names, 59 full-page colour plates, with Gould's original 1863 text, and modern commentaries by Joan M. Dixon of the National Museum of Victoria: card slipcase is scuffed and worn little worn at the edges, but otherwise the book is in very good, tight and clean condition, no no marks or inscriptions
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- Bookseller
- Book Fossicker (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24606
- Title
- Australian Marsupials and Monotremes
- Author
- Gould, John -illustrator : Dixon, Joan M. - modern text by:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385096860
- ISBN 13
- 9780385096867
- Publisher
- New York: Doubleday & Company 1975
- This edition first published
- 1975
- Keywords
- marsupials monotremes Australian animals fauna illustrated books natural history Gould, J. 0385096860
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Clunes, Victoria
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After selling from a street address for the past 8 years, we are now based again as an on-line only business. Postal address is now PO Box 81 Clunes Victoria 3370. I am an experienced bookseller, having sold secondhand books for over 30 years in various ways and from various locations, and intend to keep providing the same standard of expertise and knowledge into the future. * PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF POSTAL ADDRESS
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