Search Results: the natural history of monkeys the by sir william jardine

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Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars, 3 St James' Square; S. Highley, 32 Fleet Street, London; and W. Curry, jun. & Co. Dublin, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [4], viii, [3], 8-230p., 31 leaves of color plates : ill., port. ; 19 cm. (8vo.) Subject; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de 1707-1788.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1833. A fine copy, text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period full morocco.. Binding: Contemporary full red morocco boards with alternating blind- and gilt-tool lined borders and gilt edges, spine in five compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt text in two and four, all edges speckled, and with decorative endpapers. , Notes: The memoir is dedicated to George Louis le Clerc Buffon, who did a great deal for the field of natural history, and was seen as the father of natural history in the final years of the 18th century. This volume presents several impressive hand-coloured plates of various kinds of monkeys., Size: 12mo, Illustration: Complete with frontispiece portrait of George Louis le Clerc Buffon, engraved title, and 30 hand-coloured plates., Pages: P. half-title, frontis, engraved colour title, blank, title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, contents i-iv, advertisement v-vi, memoir 7-24, mammalia 25-230., Category: Book Natural History; Book… Read More