Author: Daniel Giraud Elliot
Title: The Life and Habits of Wild Animals
Description: London, Alexander Macmillan, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of American zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot's beautifully illustrated study of wild animals. The first edition of this work from the prominent zoologist, the founder of the American Ornithologist Union.Illustrated with twenty beautifully detailed plates by the German artist Joseph Wolf, who specialised in natural history illustration. Collated, complete.Plates engraved by J.W. and E. Whymper.In the decorative publisher's cloth. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Damp staining to tail of front board, with boards otherwise bright. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with text block split between pages 38 and 39. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Joseph Wolf. Very Good .
Keywords: American Ornithologist Union zoology joseph wolf natural history zoology Joseph Wolf
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Title: The Life and Habits of Wild Animals
Description: London, Alexander Macmillan, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of American zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot's beautifully illustrated study of wild animals. The first edition of this work from the prominent zoologist, the founder of the American Ornithologist Union.Illustrated with twenty beautifully detailed plates by the German artist Joseph Wolf, who specialised in natural history illustration. Collated, complete.Plates engraved by J.W. and E. Whymper.In the decorative publisher's cloth. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Damp staining to tail of front board, with boards otherwise bright. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with text block split between pages 38 and 39. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Joseph Wolf. Very Good .
Keywords: American Ornithologist Union zoology joseph wolf natural history zoology Joseph Wolf
Price: GBP 240.00 = appr. US$ 342.72 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 875F9
- Book number: 875F9
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