SUPERB COPY BOUND IN FULL FINE-GRAINED GREEN MOROCCO RAISED BANDS FINE DECORATIVE GILT SCROLLING TO THE SPINE AND BOARDS ALL EDGES GILT WITH THE AMOURIAL PLATE OF HENRY LANCELOT HOLLAND. NUMEROUS LINE ILLUSTRATIONS. A VERY FRESH AND HANDSOME COPY.
TWO VOLUMES SMALL OCTAVO IN ORIGINAL RED BOARDS BLACK DECORATION TO BOARDS GILT TITLES. PART OF THE NATURALISTS’ LIBRARY WITH 68 COLOURED PLATES FRONTISPIECES. SLIGHT RUBBING TO THE BOARDS MINOR FOXING TO PRELIMS AND PAGE EDGES OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD SET.
VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN WORN DARK GREY CLOTH – GILT TITLE ON SPINE. RING MARK ON FRONT BOARD. ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY 200 WOODCUTS BOOKPLATE ON FEP HAS BEEN TORN OUT. 1ST E DITION.
FIRST EDITION FOLIO. THIS IS VOLUME 2 OF HILL’S GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY WHICH IS COMPLETE IN ITSELF. WITH 16 HAND-COLOURED COPPER ENGRAVINGS – A FEW TEARS TO SOME PLATES. RECENT REVERSE-CALF BINDING IN THE STYLE OF THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A LITTLE BROWN STAINING TO THE TEXT REPAIR TO TITLE PAGE BUT A GOOD COPY. 642 PAGES INDEX.
A NEW (AND SCARCE) EDITION IN FOUR VOLUMES. MODERN GREEN CLOTH BINDINGS VERY FRESH AND TIGHT. WITH 100 ENGRAVINGS. VOL 1 415 pp 4 PLATES. VOL2. 412 pp 53 PLATES (INCLUDING ONE THAT SHOULD BE IN VOL. 1). VOL 3 424 pp 29 PLATES. VOL. 4 327 pp +EXTENSIVE INDEX 13 PLATES. OCCASIONAL ANNOTATIONS BY A NEAT CONTEMPORARY HAND BUT INTERNALLY CLEAN.
Author:
GOLDSMITH OLIVER
Place, Publisher, Date:
LONDON FOR MILLAR, LAW AND CATER AND FOR WILSON, SPENCE AND MAWMAN, YORK, 1797
SIX VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND IN MAROON PATTERNED LEATHER WITH LEATHER SPINES. MARBLED END PAGES AND EDGES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY CLEAN SET. WEAR TO THE LEATHER SPINES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF SNELSTON HALL.