Author: A Lady
Title: Natural History of Quadrupeds for Children; Combined with an Attempt to Engraft on the Youthful Mind, the Princiles of Tenderness and Compassion For the Animal Creation
Description: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, London, 1829. Third Edition, Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small volume, quarter leather with marbled cover, illustrated with 26 plates. Leather is well worn over the joints with front cover almost wholly detached and rear cover partially detached, covers are rubbed and corners are scuffed and bumped. Internal binding is sound. There is juvenile pencil graffiti at various places throughout the book with particular heavy pencilling on the inside of the covers and prelims, the name of the juvenile "artist" appears to be "Tom" although the rear-end of the illustration of the baboon is annotated as "Freddy". Plates and their facing pages are lightly foxed. Publishers catalogue at rear. viii, 145, [1], [4]. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 16022011076. ISBN: 0861421620

Keywords: BZDB4 Natural History, Biology, Botany & Zoology; 18th & 19th century non-fiction. A Lady Natural History of Quadrupeds for Children; Combined with an Attempt to Engraft on the Youthful Mind, the Princiles of Tenderness and Compassion For the Animal Creat


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