The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales.
JARDINE, Sir William
Verlag: W.H. Lizars, 1837
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1837 WHALES Dolphins 1ed Jardine Naturalist Library Mammalia Cetacea Porpoises A significantly rare first edition of volume six of Mammalia from Sir William Jardine s Naturalist s Library entitled, The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales. Within Jardine provides a fascinating early 19th-century survey on aquatic wildlife. This scientific treatise provides 32 beautifully hand-colored engraved plates depicting a variety of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Also included is a portrait and memoir of French naturalist, Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède. Item number: #40643 Price: $750 JARDINE, Sir William The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars; London: S. Highley; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. and Co., 1837. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete o xv, [2], 18-264, [1], 24, 12 o 32 plates (29 in color) Includes portrait frontispiece of Lacepede o Numerous woodcuts References: Lowndes 1192 Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Brown cloth Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18cm x 11.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 40643 Photos available upon request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40643
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Titel: The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea ...
Verlag: W.H. Lizars
Erscheinungsdatum: 1837
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Near Fine
Auflage: 1st Edition
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The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales
Verlag:
W H LIZARS, EDINBURGH, 1837
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Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. A good copy in contemporary half leather binding with 30 plates of which 28 are hand coloured. With armorial bookplate of Sidney Wentworth of Longstowe Hall to the front pastedown endpaper and signature of A Shafto Barthropp (a member of the same family) to the fep. Contents: series half title; frontispiece portrait of Lacepede with tissue guard; vignette title page with hand coloured picture of narwhal; 2 further title pages; advertisement; contents listing; Memoir of M. Le Comte de Lacepede; text with engravings and 30 plates with tissue guards at the rear. Although the plate index has plates numbered to 29, there are two versions of plate 4 - one numbered IV. The binding is clean and sound with small gilted raised bands to spine, 2 compartments for title and volume labels (now missing) and 3 compartments with textured leather. The boards are a heavy duty cloth which has some fading to edges. There is light scuffing to spine joints and the top corners are turned inwards with some leather loss. Bottom corners and edges with light wear. The contents are in very good clean condition with well coloured plates. There is some spotting and offsetting to some tissue guards. Final text leaves have a small fold at the top corner - this continues through the plates. Book size 17 cm x 11 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 033125
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The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales
Verlag:
W H LIZARS, EDINBURGH, 1837
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Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Cloth. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. A fair to good copy in the original publisher's cloth binding with 30 plates of which 28 are hand coloured. Contents: volume listing; half title; frontispiece portrait of Lacepede; title page; vignette title page with hand coloured picture of narwhal; 2 further title pages; advertisement; contents listing; Memoir of M. Le Comte de Lacepede; text with engravings and plates; publisher's catalogues at the rear. Although the plate index has plates numbered to 29, there are two versions of plate 4 - one numbered IV. The binding has some splitting and slight loss at the top of the spine and the top of both joints (the cloth is quite friable) and is shaken overall with some weak stitching. It is clean with the usual fading to spine and board edges. Contents are in very good clean condition. Some plates are without tissue guards, and some guards have offsetting from the plates. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 032684
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