Author: Graves, George
Title: The Naturalist's Pocket-Book, or Tourist's Companion, Being a Brief Introduction to the Different Branches of Natural History, with Approved Methods for Collecting and Preserving the Various Productions of Nature
Description: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1818 viii, [8]-caption leaves, 335, 8 engraved plates (5 hand-col). . HB. 8vo, cont. half calf, rubbed/scuffed, gt dec. to spine, leather title-piece, front joint cracked and a little tender, marbled boards and edges. Light foxing to some plates and facing caption leaves. Good.. There were two issues of this book, which differ only in the title page; one gives the printer as W. & S. Graves, and is undated; the other is dated 1818, printed for Longman, etc. The work also appears to have been issued with the five zoological plates coloured or uncoloured. In this copy the five zoological plates are hand-coloured, the three plates of collecting equipment were always uncoloured.Mullens & Swann pp. 246/247..

Keywords: ABA12-2023; Natural History


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