(NATURAL HISTORY.) Jardine, Sir William; editor. The Naturalist's Library. Uncolored engraved frontispiece portraits; pictorial additional titles, many hand-colored; over 1200 hand-colored plates of mammals, birds, fish, and insects (with uncolored landscape backgrounds). 38 (of 40) volumes; lacks Mammalia, Volumes 10 and 12. Small 8vo, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco by Cross, "Binder to the King," spines worn, joints rubbed, some covers starting, top compartment off Volume 1 spine; some additional titles foxed or offset, most plates generally clean. Edinburgh & London, 1833-43
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Jardine, Sir William; editor. The Naturalist's Library. Uncolored engraved frontispiece portraits; pictorial additional titles, many hand-colored; over 1200 hand-colored plates of mammals, birds, fish, and insects (with uncolored landscape backgrounds). 38 (of 40) volumes; lacks Mammalia, Volumes 10 and 12. Small 8vo, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco by Cross, "Binder to the King," spines worn, joints rubbed, some covers starting, top compartment off Volume 1 spine; some additional titles foxed or offset, most plates generally clean. Edinburgh & London, 1833-43
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