A collection of 12 assorted natural history titles, several ...

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A collection of 12 assorted natural history titles, several with ownership inkstamps of Eustace Rolfe Gunther (1902-1940), biologist and oceanographer, original member of the scientific staff of the Discovery Committee investigating the resources and ecology of the Antarctic on several voyages to the Southern Ocean, on the R.R.S. Discovery, and the smaller ship R.R.S. William Scoresby, some others with bookplates of his father, Robert Theodore Gunther (1869-1940), historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, and Thomas Hodge Grose (1845-1906), registrar of Oxford University, including Fitch & Smith: 'Illustrations of The British Flora', London, L. Reeve, 1887, 2nd edition, E.R. Gunther inkstamp and R.T. Gunther armorial bookplate to FFEP, T.H. Grose armorial bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth gilt (worn); Bentham & Hooker: 'Handbook of the British Flora', 1887, 5th edition, E.R. Gunther inkstamp and R.T. Gunther armorial bookplate to FFEP, T.H. Grose armorial bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth gilt (worn); G. Murray: 'An Introcution to the Study of Seaweeds', L, Macmillan, 1895, 1st edition, 8 coloured plates + b/w ills. in text as called for, E.R. Gunther ownership inkstamp on FFEP, orig. cloth gilt; Edward Newman: 'An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies', L, William Tweedie, 1871, b/w ills. throughout, inscription to E.R. Gunther from his father Robert Theodore Gunther on FFEP "To E.R. Gunther from R.T.G. Xmas 1917.", E.R. Gunther ownership inkstamp below, orig. decorative cloth gilt; plus 2 others with E.R. Gunther inkstamps, and 6 others butterflies, insects and birds (12)