STEWART, GAIL (EDITOR); PEALE, CHARLES WILSON & BARTRAM, WILLIAM (ARTISTS) - The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations![]() London and New York: Imprint Society, 1973. Hardcover. ISBN: 087636055X. A deluxe modern single-volume reprint edition of the original 3 volume set which was published in 1830, 1832 & 1833. With the original 56 plates (some in color) by Charles Wilson Peale and William Bartram, which depict a wide variety of American wildlife. Includes biographical sketches and portraits of Peale and Bartram. Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Includes an introduction by Wilson G. Duprey. --- In green quarter cloth over gold paper-covered boards with engraved illustration on front. Gilt-stamped titling on black spine block (repeated on slipcase). Slipcase covered in matching gold papers and with a repeat of the book's title page. --- With severe sunning to spine, else a sturdy, tightly-bound, bright copy. Slipcase with minor sunning and soiling; remains structurally sound.; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); xii, 151 pages. Very Good . USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 | £UK 22.5 | JP¥ 4276] Book number 82964is offered by:
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