A Naturalist in North Celebes.

£650 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A bright and smart copy of this account of Sydney John Hickson's (1859-1940) time journeying through the Celebes Sea and northern Celebes (Sulawesi). Hickson was a groundbreaking British zoologist who specialised in corals, and contributed to our understanding of evolution, embryology, genetics, and systematics. He journeyed through Minhassa, Sangir, Manado, and Pulau Talise. First edition; 8vo (23 x 16 cm); 2 folding colour maps, 7 plates and 29 in-text engravings by J. D. Cooper, including chromolithograph frontispiece, armorial bookplate to pastedown, clean and tight internally; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, upper inner hinge weak, otherwise a bright and fine copy; xv, 392pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.