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Tall 8vo. A32, [4], 52, A33-52 pp. With photo plates, photo text illustrations, illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers, Art Deco cover art of bamboo fronds, lettering in orange & black (minor soiling, foxing), still VG copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby (1885-1954) the naturalist and explorer who had originally accompanied Robert S. Clark on his 1908-09 Expedition to the Shaanxi & Gansu provinces in northern China, and remained in China afterwords collecting specimens. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II, and returned to the US in 1949.

Tall 8vo. A32, [4], 311-354, A33-60 pp. With photo plates, 1 colour plate, photo text illustrations, illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers, Art Deco cover art of pink & yellow blossoms on black background, lettering in green & black (minor soiling, minor chipping head & foot of spine, minor tear & creasing to lower corner), still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby (1885-1954) the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest in this installment is the first published announcement of Ruth Harkness' (d. 1947) as the first person to bring a living Giant Panda out of China, a female named Su Lin. Her husband, William Harkness, zoologist and adventurer, had headed an expedition to capture Giant Pandas, but died before he even entered the habitat. Ruth traveled into Wenchuang County of Sichuan Province, then onto Baoxing County where she discovered the cub less then 2 kilometers from Jiajin Mountain, and was later donated to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.