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London, printed for the author by James Dixwell, 1783.. FIRST EDITION 1783, parallel text in English and French, 4to, approximately 270 x 210 mm, 10½ x 8½ inches, extra engraved pictorial title page with French text under half page engraving, 11 hand coloured engraved plates (several images on each) drawn from nature by James Barbut (Jaques Barbut), engraved title, printed title, pages: xx including list of subscribers, followed by 2 page Apology, 1-101 plus blank page unnumbered. Bound in full tree calf, rebacked in modern calf, maroon gilt lettered label and gilt decoration between raised bands to spine, gilt leaf scroll to edges of covers. Small hole page 87/88 repaired with archival tape, loss of a few words and letters, affecting the English text on recto and the French on verso, slightly affecting the legibility of 5 short lines, offsetting to printed title from engraved title, offsetting to text from colour plates, colour plates clean, some light age-browning, some shallow nicks to… Leer más

London: James Dixwell, 1783. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Cloth and leather, Two volumes complete. Part I published in 1783 and part two 1788. With hand colored engraved plates drawn from nature by James Barbut. The first volume is English and French. The second volume is titled The Genera Vermium of Linnaeus and also is in English and French. Both bindings are broken but contents intact. Good condition thus. Charming plates. Rare to find both parts.

London: Printed for the Author by James Dixwell, in St. Martin's Lane. And sold by John Sewell, Bookseller in Cornhill; B. White and Son, Fleet Street; and P. Elmsley in the Strand, 1788. Two volumes in one. 4to. (10 1/2 x 8 inches). Part I: [6] [i]-xx [1]-101. Part II: [2] [i]-xxvii [1] [1]-76. 234 pp. Part I: Engraved frontispiece, Title, List of subscribers, Apology, Preface, Index, Text, Index. Part II: Volume title, Preface, Explanation of the plates, List of subscribers, Text. 27 plates across two volumes, 24 hand-colored natural history engravings mainly of shells and molluscs by James Newton, T. Woodman, H. Mutlow, and J. Taylor after Barbut, plus one engraved frontispiece, one engraved volume title, and one engraved plate printed black at rear. Text in French and English running parallel. Modern brown buckram quarter cloth over 19th-century patterned marbled boards with gilt-lettered title and author on spine, on laid paper First edition example of a beautifully illustrated hand-colored… Leer más