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Title: RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY or Popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds describing their nature,habitd and dispositions and interspersed with Original Anecdotes embellishd with numerous ENGRAVINGS AND Wood Cuts from portraits of Living Animas painted by the first Masters.
Description: London, William Clarke, Taylor & Hessey, J.M.Richardson & Sherwood,Neely & Jones. 1815 Engravings [24 as called for] after paintings by Clennell and others + Woodcuts [50] of rural animal scenes. . 8vo newer cloth spined boards & new endpapers. Titlepage + [iii] - xvi [Advertisement + Introduction] + 367pp including index + [1p=plate list]. Some foxing, mainly marginal, gift inscription to Edith Hunter dated 1858 with small pictorial ownership R.H. with spread-wing eagle? Above. Shallow marginal tear 1cm by 2cm to top of frontispiece and similar but smaller tear to top of titlepage + two tears without paper loss. Slight creasing to upper part of pages from p 222.

Keywords: Quadruped natural history


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