Author: De Kay, J.
Title: Natural history of New York. Introduction [AND] Zoology of New York, or the New-York Mammalia and introduction to the Natural History of New York. auna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate illustrations. Part I. Mammalia.
Description: New York, NY, D. Appleton, 1842. 4to (29.3 x 25.8 cm). 188; xv, 146 pp.; 2; 33 lithographed plates. Original brown, embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title, front board with gilt vignette. Yellow endpapers. = This is the complete mammals part of the zoology section of a larger series on the natural history of New York by James Ellsworth De Kay (1792-1851). Pictorial bookplate of Marie Russell "He serves all who dared be true", dated 1905, on the front pastedown. Spine ends partly chipped. As usual some foxing on the text, and more so to the general title; plates generally cleaner, one plate partly toned, otherwise a very good copy. A heavy, well-illustrated book, rarely seen outside the U.S.A. Nissen ZBI, 1064.

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