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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Grant Macdonald Ilustrador. 1st Edition. (No date, published in 1946). xvi, 221 pages. 23.5 cm. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to front and to spine. Partial dust jacket (in a protective plastic). Illustrated with twenty-four drawings in colour by Grant Macdonald. "A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk Convoy, the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay". Dust jacket have missing back flap and chipping at edges and on spine. Book with top & bottom spine lightly bumped; previous owner's stamped name of ffep; else a clean book in a firm binding.

Paper Back. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 48pp.+intro.&'test'; SC staple-bound brwn.w/gilt (no title on spine); beveled edges; light rub w/clean,tight pgs. Volume XVIII of "The Practical Security Market Course" w/intro.& 'Automatic Coach' by E.B. Gowin.

All items are good, on lightly aged paper. The 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts' is seven pages, octavo, stitched and unbound. It consists of five full-page tables: 'Receipts', 'Payments', 'Comparison of Receipts in 1867 and 1868', 'Comparison of Payments in 1867 and 1868' and one showing 'The Assets and Liabilities of the Society on the 31st of December 1868'. Comment by the seven auditors (all named) on final page, remarking on 'the unexampled state of prosperity of the Zoological Society at the close of the previous year'. The four handbills are each on one side of a 12mo leaf. They consist of a notice of the election by the secretary Philip Lutley Sclater ('The Band of the First Life Guards will, by permission of Col. the Hon. Dudley de Ros, perform in the Gardens'), and three balloting lists, each dated 29 April 1869: for the Officers (on pink paper), the Council (on yellow paper), and the Committee of Publication (on green paper). An attractive collection of Victorian London Zoo ephemera.