Author:
Title: Wonders of the Animal Kingdom. Birds
Description: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1848 iv, 484, numerous engravings (many full-page). . HB. Sm. 8vo (133x103mm), cont. green full calf (prize binding, dec. gilt border to boards and crest of High School, Bishop Stortford, to front board), spine with raised bands and contrasting red leather title piece, gilt tooling to compartments, edges of boards and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, aeg. A handsome binding, lightly rubbed/scuffed to extremities. Prize bookplate dated 1863. Bookseller's small ticket to rear pastedown (Stanford, Charing Cross, London). Fine.. First edition. Rare. Only six copies listed on OCLC.Freeman 4073 (but with title incorrectly given as Wonders of the Animal World)..
Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Children's Book; Fine Binding; Natural History
See more books from our catalog: Zoology,Birds
Title: Wonders of the Animal Kingdom. Birds
Description: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1848 iv, 484, numerous engravings (many full-page). . HB. Sm. 8vo (133x103mm), cont. green full calf (prize binding, dec. gilt border to boards and crest of High School, Bishop Stortford, to front board), spine with raised bands and contrasting red leather title piece, gilt tooling to compartments, edges of boards and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, aeg. A handsome binding, lightly rubbed/scuffed to extremities. Prize bookplate dated 1863. Bookseller's small ticket to rear pastedown (Stanford, Charing Cross, London). Fine.. First edition. Rare. Only six copies listed on OCLC.Freeman 4073 (but with title incorrectly given as Wonders of the Animal World)..
Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Children's Book; Fine Binding; Natural History
Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A58594
- Book number: A58594
See more books from our catalog: Zoology,Birds