THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. MARSUPIALIA OR POUCHED ANIMALS
by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate General 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, 1856. Corner and spine extremities wirn. Top front corner of spine has an old repair. Front cover and spine gilt.Top edge gilt. Hand-colored title-page, frontispiece with tissue-guard. This is Volume XXIV in the set and Volume X in the "Animals" section. There are a total of thirty-seven plates, thirty-five of which are HAND-COLORED, each with a tissue-guard. Plate 2 is produced twice, each with a different image as noted in the Contents. Collated complete. A memoir of John Barclay follows the Contents. 323pp. Please see photos.. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate General Wear/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015561
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. MARSUPIALIA OR POUCHED ANIMALS
- Author
- JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate General Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- W.H. Lizars
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hand-colored Plates, Animals, Marsupials, 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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