Development of Viviparous Osseous Fishes and of the Atlantic Salmon

Pp. 128-162; 7 full page plates.  Later orange cloth, lettered in black on the front cover, lg 8vo.  Proceedings of the United States National Museum for 1885.  A second paper by John Ryder is bound in at the end: “On the value of the Fin-Rays and their characteristics of development in the classification of the fishes, together with remarks on the theory of degeneration,” pp. 71-82 (1886).  There is an old circular blind stamp of the Field Columbian Museum Library on the first title page.  On the title page of the second paper is an old ink-stamp of Carnegie Museum and the small name stamp of ichthyologist Robert Anderson.  There are no other library marks or any other ownership marks.  Rare work.