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London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. Gift inscription to John Greenleaf Whittier from E.C.P. on half title page. Bookplate "From the Library of John Greenleaf Whittier Amesbury, Mass. Sale authorized by Samuel T. Pikard. Jan., 1903, Literary Executor" front pastedown. Whittier (Dec. 17, 1807 - Sept 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist. A very good copy bound in original green cloth with spine rebacked and original spine laid down, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration front cover, top edge gilt. vi, 430 pp.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Blindstamped cloth. Very Good. 8vo. xxiv, 416 pp. With 40 hand-colored illustrations and steel engraved frontis. The lovely animal plates are similar to those found in Jardine. Frontis has foxing. Otherwise, but for occasional light and trivial soiling, a clean and tight copy. Some fading of gilt decoration on spine. Repair along front gutter. Darkening along both gutters. Wear along spine tips.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1878. Finely bound in stamp-signed Riviere and Son binding of dark green full polished calf, the back with red morocco labels and ornate gilt decorations, marbled end papers with ornate gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Near Fine, the covers with a few faint rubs. xxiv, 416 pp. with 40 engravings. An uncommon later edition of this classic of natural history, WorldCat locates only two libraries with holdings. . Later Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London / New York : S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. , 1900. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram, gilt lettering at spines, top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good, spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II, scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Thick 8vo.

London: for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Very Early Printing in format as the first edition. With twelve engraved plates including one handcoloured and one multi-folding. 4to, bound in three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards, the spine decorated in panel designs in blind within compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, t.e.g., others untrimmed. x, 587 pp. A fine and handsome copy in original quarto format with a full grouping ot engraved plates. Some mellowing as would be expected, a bit of minor aging to the binding. An unusually pleasing copy. A SIMPLY LOVELY EARLY 19TH CENTURY EDITION OF WHITE'S CHARMING WORK IN IMPRESSIVE QUARTO FORMAT AS THE FIRST EDITION. A copy with a full selection of engraved plates. "Open the book where you will, it takes you out-of-doors. In simplicity of taste and natural refinement [White] reminds you of Walton; in tenderness toward what he would have called the brute creation, of Cowper. He seems to have lived… Leer más