Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Square 8vo, ff. [66], printed recto only, with 60 copper-engravings in text, several hand-coloured; a few spots; disbound as loose leaves, housed in a modern green cloth clamshell box with gilt paper lettering-piece to spine; early ownership inscription to title, crossed through.First and only edition, very rare, published in parts. The engraved figures and their descriptions comprise a variety of turtles, snakes, frogs, and fish, including several notable species from America. Though Walcott writes in his preface of the prospect of 'a Second Part, which will contain the remainder of such foreign animals as are known to us', none was ever published. ESTC records only four copies in the UK (Trinity Hall, Natural History Museum, and two copies at the BL) and two in North America (Cleveland, Huntington). ESTC T97963 ('65 leaves'); Nissen 4325 ('60 Bl.', '1788-89'); Quaritch, Catalogue 905: Natural History (1970), 622.

2 parts in one vol., folio, pp. [16], 176, 179-298, 301-302, 301-386; [16], 350, 387-392, 357-475, [1 (blank)]; engraved portrait printed to [π]1v, large woodcut initials and ornaments throughout; sig. A inverted and sewn within sig. [π], likewise inverted (resulting in the collation [π]2, A4-6, A1-3, [π]1), numerous part-titles but paginated and collated in 2 continuous parts, pp. 299-300 mispaginated '301-302' and pp. 2351-356 '387-392', complete despite the error in pagination; A2 perhaps a cancel; a few sections foxed, very occasional insignificant paper-flaws or ink- and scorch-marks, never affecting legibility; contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title inked to spine in later hand, blue edges, later endpapers; split at head of upper joint, some wear to extremities and marks to boards; ink stamp of the Albani Library to first title; inscriptions and ink stamps of James Condamin (1917) to front free endpaper and titles.… Read More