Author: Francis T. Buckland
Title: Curiosities of Natural History
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1861-1868. Cloth. Two smart volumes of Buckland's extensive work on natural history, from the second and third series. Two volumes. Written by Francis Trevelyan Buckland, an English surgeon, zoologist, and natural historian born to a noted family of naturalists. These works offer a comprehensive study into the world of natural history, with commentary on minerals, statues, specimens, bird species, game-keeping, exhibitions, insects, identification of the skeleton, fish and fishing, and much more. This set includes: Curiosities of Natural History Second Series, 1861. New edition. Illustrated with frontispiece. Curiosities of Natural History Third Series, 1868. Second edition. In two volumes, this is volume two. Illustrated with one plate. Collated complete. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine of volume one. Rear hinge starting but firm to each volume. Internally, volume one is firmly bound while volume two is generally firmly bound with the textblock loosening in places. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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