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3 works in 2 vols, 8vo, pp. I: xxxvii, [1], 408, Supplement (pt i): iv, 48, II: [4], 472,Supplement (pt ii): 72 xxiv, 142, [2 (publisher's prospectus)]; with a great many woodcut illustrations; slight spots in places and a few instances of offsetting, otherwise an attractive set; contemporary half calf with later 19th-century marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments and tooled in blind with gilt red and green morocco lettering-pieces; rubbed, a few scuffs, corners lightly bumped, minor split to upper joint of vol. I; armorial bookplates of Adam Sim, Coulter, to upper pastedowns, with a [2] pp. autograph letter to Sim signed by William Euing bound in, dated 'Glasgow, 8th Nov. 1853'.
First collected editions, with an autograph letter on the Hebridal smelt from the species' discoverer. Published serially from 1835 to 1836, Yarrell's History of British Fishes was reprinted within a year, and followed… Read More
