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CUVIER, BARON. The class aves arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with specific descriptions by Edward Griffith … and Edward Pidgeon … the additional species inserted in the text of Cuvier by John Edward Gray.
London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1829. First edition in English, 3 vols., 4to, 111 engraved plates of birds, mounted and on India paper, as issued; contemporary purple calf gilt, scuffed and rubbed, spines faded to brown; upper joint of vol. I starting, else a good, sound set, internally clean. Volumes 6-8 (all of the birds) of Cuvier's great The Animal Kingdom.
Offered for US$ 1875.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 20308