28th Apr, 2022 10:00

Fine Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 178
 

Cuvier (Baron) The Animal Kingdom Arranged According to its Organisation

Cuvier (Baron)

The Animal Kingdom Arranged According to its Organisation, 4 vol., portrait frontispiece and engraved title to each vol., 742 plates of which 8 folding, black and white and hand-coloured, each with multiple images, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, all bindings very worn some covers loose, internally very good, G. Henderson, 1837; [Budgen (L. M. ) ] Acheta Domestica. Episodes of Insect Life, First Series, first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces, and illustrations, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, upper joint split, slightly worn at extremities, bookplate, 1849; Kingsley (Charles) Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore, fourth edition corrected and enlarged, 12 coloured plates, Cambridge, 1859, & Lankester (Sir Ray) Science from an Easy Chair, third edition, illustrated, contemporary half calf, worn, joints cracked, school prize binding, 1910, v.s. (11)

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