Classic Natural History Prints - Mammals by Dance, S. Peter - 1990

Arch Cape Press. New in New dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517027313 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Arranged chronologically, this book, beginning with a 1734 engraving of hedgehogs from, "Seba's Thesaurus", and ending with a 1906 print of three whales from Millais's "Mammals of Great Britain", is a truly remarkable collectable book.Sandwiched between those prints are prints portraying domestic and exotic mammals of all kinds, including lithographs of the extinct quagga and the nearly extinct thylacine, engravings of a friendly puma and the world's largest rat, together with the first published pictures of the giant panda and the okapi." ; Folio 14" tall; 128 pages .