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Naturalist's Pocket Magazine: or Compleat Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature
de Anonymous
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good-/None
- Librería
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Sobre este artículo
Six volumes only of this rare eight-volume set. (Vol. VIII was discontinued after only 4 issues with 12 plates.)
With 352 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 360).
Incomplete set of this rare handy pocket-sized edition of 18th century natural history describing many newly discovered species.
Text and plates copied from accounts published by Count Buffon, George Edwards, George Shaw, James Bruce, Thomas Pennant, Maria Sybilla Merian and others.
Includes the extinct dodo and sukotyro, endangered animals and birds (Siau Island tarsier, white rhinoceros, polar bear, Indian bustard, great green macaw, wild water buffalo, banded cotinga, Russian mink, African grey parrot).
Also notable for the early images of plants and animals discovered in New South Wales, Australia (short-beaked echidna, kangaroo, black swan, eastern quoll, waratah, Banksia, etc.).
Half contemporary calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels, marbled boards scuffed, front board off Vol. VI. Some plates loose or trimmed, foxing and finger-marks to text and plates.
With 352 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 360).
Incomplete set of this rare handy pocket-sized edition of 18th century natural history describing many newly discovered species.
Text and plates copied from accounts published by Count Buffon, George Edwards, George Shaw, James Bruce, Thomas Pennant, Maria Sybilla Merian and others.
Includes the extinct dodo and sukotyro, endangered animals and birds (Siau Island tarsier, white rhinoceros, polar bear, Indian bustard, great green macaw, wild water buffalo, banded cotinga, Russian mink, African grey parrot).
Also notable for the early images of plants and animals discovered in New South Wales, Australia (short-beaked echidna, kangaroo, black swan, eastern quoll, waratah, Banksia, etc.).
Half contemporary calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels, marbled boards scuffed, front board off Vol. VI. Some plates loose or trimmed, foxing and finger-marks to text and plates.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- FLO147
- Título
- Naturalist's Pocket Magazine
- Autor
- Anonymous
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Half calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good-
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Harrison, Cluse and Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1798-1800
- Tamaño
- Duodecimo, 15 x 9cm
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- illustrated, science, zoology, botany, natural history
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Natural History;
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
Términos de venta
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Sobre el vendedor
Florilegius
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
Sobre Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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