A History of The Earth and Animated Nature - With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. Vol II only.

Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith

Edité par A. Fullerton and Co.,, Edinburgh and London, 1854

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colour frontispiece + colour half title page + Title page + 541 pages + 37 hand coloured plates. Original Hardback binding fair as front cover detached, Contents poor to very good, most pages very good, at front pages to page 20 detached, some edge nicks, edge tears, some minor edge dirt , to page 163 there are another 20/30 detached pages, page 164 to page 541 are mostly very good, clean & tight, some minor marks, 2 with corner tip loss, a couple of corner folds, lacks page 111/112, contains 40 pages hand coloured illustrations (inc frontispiece + half title page) ., some with edge wear, frontispiece with fold. Volume II History of Animated Nature of Birds, Birds in General - Of the Generation, Nestling and Incubation of Birds - Of the Division of Birds - Of the Ostrich, Emu, Cassowary and Dodo - Rapacious Birds - Birds of the Poultry kind - Birds of the Pie kind - Birds of the Sparrow kind - Birds of the Crane kind - Of Water- Fowl. History of the Fishes - Of Cetaceous Fishes - Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of Spinous Fishes - Of Crustaceous and Testaceous Fishes History of Frogs, Lizards and Serpents - Of Frogs and Toads - Of the Lizard kind - Of Serpents &c. History of Insects - Of Insects in General - Insects of the Second Order - Insects of the Third Order - Insects of the Fourth Order - Of the Zoophytes List of Content and Plates and with a General Alphabetical Index. So Vol II only, not dated believe about 1854. for reference only as with one page of text missing, and one plate missing (opp page 106), hand coloured illustration on half title page is not listed on list of illustrations.

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• Titre: A History of The Earth and Animated Nature - With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. Vol II only.
• Éditeur: A. Fullerton and Co.,, Edinburgh and London
• Date de parution: 1854
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Poor to Very Good