Adaptive Coloration in Animals

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Adaptive Coloration in Animals

By Cott, Hugh B.

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$ 75.00

Pp. xxxii, 508; color frontispiece plate, 48 black-and-white plates, 83 text-figures.  Publisher’s original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo.  This well-known volume is about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry in the animal world by noted Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott.  It was first published in 1940 and went through several reprintings.  This book had two previous owners: there is the bookplate of Thomas A. Jefferson on the front attached endpaper and the signature of vertebrate paleontologist, Edward Mitchell is also on the same endpaper.  There is also a small circular name stamp of Edward Mitchell on the copyright page along with the date he purchased the volume.  There are no other ownership marks.

Publisher

Methuen
Publisher Place London
Date Published 1966
Date Published Estimated No
Edition Later printing
Number of Volumes 1
Reprint No
Condition Near fine
Condition Description A few rub-marks to the cloth at the top of the spine and to the rear cover along the top edge; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.
ISBN
Limited Edition