Field and Forest Rambles, with Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern Canada by Adams, A Leith

King, London,1873, pp.xvi,333, 2 maps, woodcuts in the text.Original cloth,spine gilt,front inner hinge just beginning to crack, spine ends a trifle rubbed, some foxing at begiining and end, but a nice,clean copy.

London: Henry S. King & Co. 1873, 1st edition. (Decorative cloth) 333pp. Very good. Frontispiece, engraved illus., maps, one folding "Natural History Map of New Brunswick". Gilt / black printed and decorated green bevelled cloth shows abrasions to extremities, edges, minor damage to head & tail, without loss of dignity. Hinges tender. Contemporary holograph library notation verso endpaper. Faintly discernible blind stamp to title-page. Text page edges age spotted, but remaining clean and bright within..

London: Henry S. King, 1873. Hardcover. Good. xvi, 333 p. 22 cm. B&w frontispiece, title page vignette, fold-out map, other b&w drawings in text. Full leather with gilt trim, marbled endpapers and text block edges. Respined with new label. Binding signed by Relfe Brothers, London. Dampstains to front endpapers and title. Corners worn. Army physician Andrew Leith Adams (1827-1882) took an interest in the natural history of any part of the British Empire in which he was stationed, whether it be India, Egypt, Gibraltar, or Canada. Eventually he became a professor of zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, followed by professor of natural history in Queen's College, Cork.

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1873. First Edition. Decorated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth with gilt and stamped black decorations to front board and to spine; stamped black decoration to rear board. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with folding map to front of book. Cloth to head and heel of spine professionally restored. Usual age darkening to pages and page edges, upper page edges soiled. Some wear to outer edges of endpages. Some light foxing to pages toward boards and intermittently toward page edges throughout.

London: Henry S. King & Co. , 1873. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this naturalist work on Eastern Canada, with illustrations and a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a colour folding map, one plate, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed account of the author's time in Eastern Canada, with chapters on birds and reptiles, fishes, geology, and the surrounding areas. Written by Andrew Leith Adams, a Scottish army physician, naturalist and geologist. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good