Lord, John Keast

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 125mm.), (vol. 1) [ii], [v]-xiv, [ii], 358pp.; (vol.2) [ii], [v]-viii, [ii], 376pp., 11 plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt, brown endpapers, slipcase

Robert and Evelyn Benson, bookplate

Sabin 42035; Staton & Tremaine 4516; Zimmer p.404

A very good copy
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"When British Columbia was formed into a colony after the gold discoveries on the Fraser River in 1858, Lord was appointed (1 February 1858) naturalist to the British North American boundary commission sent out to run a boundary line along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, separating the new colony from United States territory. He was detached to San Francisco to buy mules, and to his skill and energy the success of the transport arrangements of the expedition was largely due. He lived for some time at Vancouver Island, but returned to England on 14 July 1862. The valuable collections he made of mammals, birds, fishes, insects, and other specimens are now in the Natural History Museum, London... Lord's most enduring work was perhaps The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia (2 vols., 1866), at the end of which are lists of his collections in north-west America" (ODNB).