Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2019). 2019 1st edition. 8vo paperback (170 x 220mm). Ppii,38. Colour photographs throughout, bibliography. Fine new unread paperback. Robert Newstead was the first Curator of the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, and the only taxidermist ever to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. "This small book .record(s) what Robert Newstead did as a taxidermist before his academic career propelled him to other areas (and) preserve(s) a small record of (his) efforts to create what was once a notable and much appreciated civic facility." A brief bibliography is included, as well as a list of papers by Newstead. . Seller Inventory # 50228
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Paper covers. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st edition. The Grosvenor Museum, Chester contains a range of examples of the work of its former Curator who went on to become a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and FRS for his work on parasitology. His brother Arthur was also a taxidermist. (2), 46 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English. Seller Inventory # 21931
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