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London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1931. First edition. Paperback. Very good overall. One of the outstanding series on corals & reefs, the expedition sponsored by the British Museum (Natural History). Folio, pp 83-91, one plate & one text figure. Publishers brown printed wrappers a little dusty.

London, The British Museum (Natural History), 1930-1940. 13 parts in one. 4to (30.3 x 23.1 cm). 391 pp.; 100 text figures, 32 plates. Contemporary blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = The complete first volume (of six). Definitely one of the rarest volumes of this series. This volume contains 13 papers, dealing with, for instance, the biology of reef-building corals, the physiology of corals, and organisms which destroy coral rocks (e.g., various boring molluscs). Well-illustrated. Number on spine foot; perforated stamp in the lower margin of the title leaf with cancellation stamp on verso. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.