Solenodon Paradoxus

Pp. 53, (1); 9 full page plates (3 are color lithographs, 6 are fine line drawings), each plate is accompanied by a descriptive leaf.  Later dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (original printed pale green wrappers are bound in at rear), lg 4to.  Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, volume 40, no. 1.  Solenodon is a genus of venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals belonging to the family Solenodontidae.  There are two living species, Solenodon paradoxus, from Haiti and Dominion Republic, and Solenodon cubanus from Cuba.  No ownership marks and no signs of use.