JARDINE, William (editor). The Naturalist's Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1834-1845. 40 vols., 8vo (172 x 100mm.) 40 engraved portrait frontispieces, additional pictorial titles, some hand-coloured, 1269 hand-coloured plates with tissue-guards. (Browning to margins, some uncut leaves.) Original cloth boards, original lettering pieces onlaid to spines (crudely rebacked in cloth, two volumes with inner joints broken, sunning to boards, one lettering piece missing). Note: complete in 40 volumes, comprising: ornithology (14), entomology (7), mammalia (13) and ichthyology (6). - And two duplicate volumes from the series (42).
JARDINE, William (editor). The Naturalist's Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1834-1845. 40 vols., 8vo (172 x 100mm.) 40 engraved portrait frontispieces, additional pictorial titles, some hand-coloured, 1269 hand-coloured plates with tissue-guards. (Browning to margins, some uncut leaves.) Original cloth boards, original lettering pieces onlaid to spines (crudely rebacked in cloth, two volumes with inner joints broken, sunning to boards, one lettering piece missing). Note: complete in 40 volumes, comprising: ornithology (14), entomology (7), mammalia (13) and ichthyology (6). - And two duplicate volumes from the series (42).
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