Cuvier

1851 · rif. 35028 — London: John Joseph Griffin and Co. 1851. First Edition. RARE in commerce no copies currently being offered. Fully illustrated with a profusion of 88 full-page plates from the engravings of J.W. Lowry and Thomas Landseer and from original drawings by Sowerby Darley Holmes Bone Pyne Lowry and Charles Landseer and with a great number of textual illustrations throughout. With the engraved frontispiece and illustrated title-page. Folio publisher's original blue cloth the upper cover with central gilt vignette of a scene in nature the spine decorated and lettered in gilt the covers both blocked in blind with elaborate border designs all edges gilt. xii 163 87 full-page engraved plates of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. A good copy with wear to the binding some old damp stains at the bottom of some plates one plate loose and worn at the edges the binding weak and with separation at the front hinge a small group of six preliminary leaves sprung at the beginning of the book. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY SCARCE ZOOLOGICAL WORK FROM THE ENGRAVINGS AND DRAWINGS OF BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS ILLUSTRATORS OF THE PERIOD. John Joseph Griffin and Co. hardcover