Best.-Nr. 290364Whittaker Treacher and Co. 1831. THIS VOL ONLY super octavo marbled half green leather bound boards gilt lettering & tooling to spine blind stamp decoration to boards red speckled page edges marbled eps frontispiece 481pp 110pp synopsis of species to rear illus VG moderate scuffing & surface loss to boards & board edges light discolouration to spine moderate tanning to page edges moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout moderate cracking to gutters near front sl cracking to other gutters throughout Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 1831 hardcover

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The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History; The Animal Kingdom of Baron Cuvier

1839Best.-Nr. 1018F17Edinburgh: The Proprietor 1839 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 14" by 10.5". Not Stated. Impressively illustrated with 130 hand coloured animal plates this is the scarce first edition of 'The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History' and 'The Animal Kingdom of Baron Cuvier'. A scarce collection of works with three volumes bound in one. Present here are volumes I and II of the first collected edition of 'The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of Physical Sciences'. The work of Scottish naturalist and ornithologist William MacGillivray. With a title page to volume I only lacking the volume II title page. Also present is the first edition of 'The Animal Kingdom of the Baron Cuvier Enlarged and Adapted to the Present State of Zoological Science'. The plates of all three volume are bound to the rear of the work with 130 hand-coloured plates. Collated complete. Rebacked with endpapers renewed. A wonderful study of natural history in the mid 19th century offering both scientific detail and beautiful illustrations. Rebacked in a half calf binding with cloth covered boards and with endpapers renewed. Rubbing to board perimeters and cloth of boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with light spotting throughout. Significant spotting to plates with significant closed tears to fore edge of three plates. Very Good The Proprietor hardcover