Author: J. R. Ainsworth Davis
Title: The Natural History of Animals: The Animal Life of the World in Its Various Aspects and Relations
Description: London, The Gresham Publishing Company , 1903. First edition. Cloth. The complete set of this extensive natural history of animals, adorned with colour plates and illustrations throughout the text. The first editions of this work. Complete in four volumes bound into eight half-volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original Art Nouveau cloth binding. A comprehensive study of the natural history of animals, covering a vast range of topics. The entirety of the set comprises:Half-volume I - Covers the structures, classifications and characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. With a coloured frontispiece, eleven plates, three of which are in colour, and numerous in-text illustrations. Half-volume II - Structure and classification of fishes and primitive vertebrates, various worms, zoophytes and others. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates, and an array of black and white illustrations throughout the text. Half-volume III - Explores the food of animals. Including flesh-eating mammals, carnivorous birds, insectivorous reptiles, plant-eating molluscs and more. With a coloured frontispiece, four colour plates and numerous black and white in-text illustrations. Half-volume IV - The food of animals continued. Then, discussing animal defences, such as bodily characteristics, special precautionary habits. Moves on to animal respiration, covering species that breathe in water and those that breathe in air. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates and an array of illustrations. Half-volume V - Looks at animal movement, with muscular locomotion of higher invertebrates, birds which swim, walking of jointed-limbed invertebrates and more. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates and various in text illustrations. Half-volume VI - Animal movement continued. Explores animal development, such as regeneration, and life histories of a large scope of species. With a coloured frontispiece, three colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Half-volume VII - Discusses the nerve system and sense-organs of animals, such as those backboneless. Moves on to animal instinct and intelligence and association of organisms. With a coloured frontispiece, three colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Half-volume VIII - Utilitarian zoology, such as fishes as food, With a coloured frontispiece, four colour plates and numerous in text illustrations. With a coloured structure of the pigeon to attached to the board to the rear. Collated, complete. From specialised writer of zoology and biology, James Richard Ainsworth Davis. With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of half-volume I, III, VI, V, VI, and VII. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Sunning to the spines and marks to the boards. Light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Damp spots to the front boards of half-volume III, V, VI, Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Natural History Animals Colour Plates Animals Not Stated


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