The Natural History of Seals illustrated by thirty-three plates, coloured; with memoir and portrait of Peron The Naturalist's Library Mammalia Vol VIII Amphibious Carnivora including the Walrus and Seals also of the Herbivorous Cetacea etc 1st Edition 1839 from the library of James Whyte 6th Premier of Tasmania Signed by Whyte de Hamilton, Robert; Jardine, Sir William - 1839

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1839. 1st Edition. leather. Rebacked in new leather, Very Good throughout/no dustwrapper. 16mo. colour plates 1st Edition 1839 of Vol. VIII in the Mammalia series from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library; illustrated study of amphibious carnivora, with focus on Walruses and Seals, but also notably containing a short section on serpents and sea monsters (with three plates of same - plate XXX of The Kraken); also includes introductory chapter 'Memoir of M Francois Peron'; illustrated with 33 coloured engravings, frontispiece plate of Peron, title-page vignette, all with original tissue-guards, and with numerous text illustrations; bound in (thin) contemporary calf, with ornate designs blind-embossed to front and rear boards, and gilt titing and ornamental device to spine; all edges gilt - text block and plates moderately trimmed; from the library of James Whyte, 6th Premier of Tasmania, signed by Whyte to title page - James Whyte was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist and politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from January 1863 to November 1866; this volume rebacked in new leather (retaining/preserving original 19th-C leather), with new endpapers and new hollow backs; all tissue-guards have taken some offset from the plates, o.w. Very Good throughout, with very occasional foxing.