THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. DOGS
by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, et al, 1856. Top edge gilt. Front cover with gilt design. Gilt spine. Spine extremities and corner lightly worn. Undated but circa 1856. This is Volume XVIII in the set and Volume IV in the "Animal" series. Portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page (uncolored). A total of THIRTY HAND-COLORED PLATES and four uncolored plates of various skulls. This is Volume 1 only of "Dogs". A memoir of Pallas follows the Contents. 267pp. See photos. . Later Edition. Red Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015555
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. DOGS
- Author
- JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- W.H. Lizars, et al
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dogs, Hand-Colored Plates, Natural Science
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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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