Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
Title: History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Vol. I-IV
Description: A. Fullarton & Co. 1834-1837 xii, 288; 289-552; iv, 276; 277-552; vi, 300; 301-567; vii, 344; 1-4, 345-703, 1 portrait frontis, 4 additional engraved title-pages, 109 plates (1 folding). . HB. 4 vols bound in 8, 12mo, cont. cloth, some minor wear, partly faded, gt lettering to spine; some foxing; cont. owners' name to a couple of the endpapers. A good set.. Re-issue of the 1832 edition. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was a novelist, playwright and poet and man of letters. Inspired by Buffon’s monumental 'Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière', Goldsmith complied his own major work, acknowledging that he was drawing on a number of secondary sources including Pliny, Buffon, Willughby, De Geer etc. The work also includes Goldsmith’s musings and entertaining anecdotes which greatly helped to make the work a publishing success, running to many editions. Written in fine literary prose, the modern reader is provided with a fascinating insight to late 18th century perspectives of the natural world, the excitement of recent discoveries in Australia and the Americas and the place that the human race had in the world..
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Title: History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Vol. I-IV
Description: A. Fullarton & Co. 1834-1837 xii, 288; 289-552; iv, 276; 277-552; vi, 300; 301-567; vii, 344; 1-4, 345-703, 1 portrait frontis, 4 additional engraved title-pages, 109 plates (1 folding). . HB. 4 vols bound in 8, 12mo, cont. cloth, some minor wear, partly faded, gt lettering to spine; some foxing; cont. owners' name to a couple of the endpapers. A good set.. Re-issue of the 1832 edition. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was a novelist, playwright and poet and man of letters. Inspired by Buffon’s monumental 'Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière', Goldsmith complied his own major work, acknowledging that he was drawing on a number of secondary sources including Pliny, Buffon, Willughby, De Geer etc. The work also includes Goldsmith’s musings and entertaining anecdotes which greatly helped to make the work a publishing success, running to many editions. Written in fine literary prose, the modern reader is provided with a fascinating insight to late 18th century perspectives of the natural world, the excitement of recent discoveries in Australia and the Americas and the place that the human race had in the world..
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Price: GBP 240.00 = appr. US$ 342.72 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A42857
- Book number: A42857
See more books from our catalog: General Natural History,General Natural History