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THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY ICHTHYOLOGY
by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Wear/No Dust Jackets
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1835. SIX VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. These are Volumes 1-6 of the Ichthyology series. They date from 1835-1843. Spines are lettered in gilt. Volumes 4 and 6 have 1 and II in ink on spine (The two volumes of the British Fishes). Volume 5 has been rebacked with the original spine laid-down. There are a total of 202 plates in the six volumes, including a frontispiece and vignette title-page in each volume. Title-page vignette in Volume 1 is hand-colored, others are not. We have collated the fish plates as complete, and ALL ARE HAND-COLOURED! Volume 1 is "The Perch Family" by William Jardine; Volume II is "Treating of the Nature, Structure, and Economical Uses of Fishes", byJ.S. Bushnan; Volumes III and V are "Fishes of Guiana" by Robert Schomburgk; Volumes IV and VI are"British Fishes" by Robert Hamilton. All have the previous owner's signature at top of front free endpaper. A complete set of the fishes. All plates are found at the end of the text except for Volume 1 where they are scattered through the text material. Plates are clean with vivid coloration, some with tissue-guards. Please see photos. . First Edition. Brown Pebbled Cloth. Light Wear/No Dust Jackets. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015532
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY ICHTHYOLOGY
- Author
- JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jackets
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W.H. Lizars
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1835
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ichthyology, Fish, Hand-Colored Plates, Natural Science
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Cloth
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