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BEECHEY, WILLIAM. 1796-1856. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... by J.Richardson ... N.A. Vigors ... Bennett ... Richard Owen ... John Gray ... W. Buckland and G.B. Sowerby. London Henry G Bohn, 1839. image 1
BEECHEY, WILLIAM. 1796-1856. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... by J.Richardson ... N.A. Vigors ... Bennett ... Richard Owen ... John Gray ... W. Buckland and G.B. Sowerby. London Henry G Bohn, 1839. image 2
BEECHEY, WILLIAM. 1796-1856. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... by J.Richardson ... N.A. Vigors ... Bennett ... Richard Owen ... John Gray ... W. Buckland and G.B. Sowerby. London Henry G Bohn, 1839. image 3
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BEECHEY, WILLIAM. 1796-1856.
The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... by J.Richardson ... N.A. Vigors ... Bennett ... Richard Owen ... John Gray ... W. Buckland and G.B. Sowerby. London: Henry G Bohn, 1839.

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BEECHEY, WILLIAM. 1796-1856.

The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... by J.Richardson ... N.A. Vigors ... Bennett ... Richard Owen ... John Gray ... W. Buckland and G.B. Sowerby. London: Henry G Bohn, 1839.
4to (288 x 225 mm). Letterpress title, 44 hand-colored engraved natural history plates by Sowerby (birds, fishes, insects and shells), the final geological section with 3 hand-colored engraved geological maps, one double-page and folding, and including a geological plan of San Francisco Bay. Occasional very light foxing. Original publishers green cloth, original paper spine label worn, but noting 47 colored plates, corners bumped.
Provenance: John Obadiah Westwood (Entomologist, signature at upper right corner of title); Frederick William Hope (Entomologist and Naturalist, armorial bookplate inscribed "Sold by order of the Hope Professor ... 1946."

A fine copy. The John Westwood/Frederick William Hope copy of Beechey's Zoology of the Pacific, describing specimens collected on the Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait on H.M.S. Blossom in 1825-28, with contributions from the most famous British Naturalists of the day. Hope and Westwood founded the Entomological Society of London in 1833, and Westwood had been taken under Hope's wing early in his career. Hope had found him a curatorial job at Oxford, and Westwood went on to be a Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford and the author of many books on entomology. Forbes 1176; Hill 96; Howes R-259; Lada-Mocarski 105; Sabin 71032; Wickersham 6825.

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