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First edition, 1846. 8vo. 2 volumes: xviii, 399; vii, 498 pp. 19 lithograph portraits. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and ornamentation, marbled endpapers and text block edges. 1865 gift inscription to Simon M. Lockhart on front endpaper. Endpapers toned, as is the title page which has offsetting from the frontispiece, which is foxed. Interiors and other plates are mostly clean, very good throughout.

Complete 18th-century 9 volume set of the First Edition of John Latham's monumental work on scientific cataloging of birds, all illustrations hand-colored plate engravings in bright and vivid colors, including the 3-volume General Synopsis (1781-1785) bound in six, Supplement to the General Synopsis (1787, Leigh and Sotheby in one volume), and 2-volume Index Ornithologicus (1790).
The books are handsomely bound in full contemporary tan leather with gilt ruled boards, morocco spine labels, gilt lettering and decoration to spines.
A later supplement accompanying this 9-volume set was published in two volumes in 1801 and this compilation was republished later in 1821 as General History of Birds. The 1790 volumes of Index Ornithologicus present in this set is where Latham specified a binomial name for all the species which he had previously described. However, it was too late, as Johann Friedrich Gmelin had already published his own version of Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ in which he gave a scientific name… Read More

A splendid account of Early Medicine. Hippocratis magni coacae praenotiones... interprete & enarratore Ludovico Dureto.Thick Folio. [12], 578, [58] pp. Woodcut printer's device to title page and woodcut chapter headings & initials. First edition of Hippocrates' Prognostics edited and translated by Louis Duret and, completed posthumously, by his son Jean Duret. Text in Greek and Latin, concluding with an index. Vellum spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering, later binding and endpapers