The Naturalist’s Library. Mammalia. Vol. I. / The Natural History of Monkeys. Illustrated by Thirty-One Plates, Numerous Wood-Cuts, and a Portrait and Memoir of Buffon.
de Sir William Jardine
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- A fine copy, text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period full morocco.
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Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1833. A fine copy, text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period full morocco.. Binding: Contemporary full red morocco boards with alternating blind- and gilt-tool lined borders and gilt edges, spine in five compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt text in two and four, all edges speckled, and with decorative endpapers. , Notes: The memoir is dedicated to George Louis le Clerc Buffon, who did a great deal for the field of natural history, and was seen as the father of natural history in the final years of the 18th century. This volume presents several impressive hand-coloured plates of various kinds of monkeys., Size: 12mo, Illustration: Complete with frontispiece portrait of George Louis le Clerc Buffon, engraved title, and 30 hand-coloured plates., Pages: P. half-title, frontis, engraved colour title, blank, title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, contents i-iv, advertisement v-vi, memoir 7-24, mammalia 25-230., Category: Book Natural History; Book Biography;Book Plate Books Colour;
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- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
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- B3227
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- The Naturalist’s Library. Mammalia. Vol. I. / The Natural History of Monkeys. Illustrated by Thirty-One Plates, Numerous Wood-Cuts, and a Portrait and Memoir of Buffon.
- Autor
- Sir William Jardine
- Estado del libro
- Usado - A fine copy, text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period full morocco.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- W.H. Lizars
- Lugar de publicación
- Edinburgh
- Fecha de publicación
- 1833
- Palabras clave
- Book Natural History; Book Biography;Book Plate Books Colour;
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