THE NATURALIST’S LIBRARY
Containing Scientific and Popular Descriptions of
MAN, QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES and INSECTS
Compiled From the Works of
Cuvier, Griffith, Richardson, Geoffrey, Lacepede, Buffon, Goldsmith, Shaw,
Montague, Wilson, Lewis & Clark, Audubon
and Other Writers on Natural History
Edited by A. A. Gould
with 400 ENGRAVINGS
Published: 1853. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company.
Size: LARGE 8Vo. 880 pages.
Condition: Recovered leather spine over boards, gold titles & decoration on spine. Original spine tucked into back of book.
Foxing on title page. Text pages remarkably clean with only occasional spots of foxing.
Binding very tight. No torn, missing or defaced pages.
1854 signature of original owner on first flyleaf.
Interesting, detailed information in a 155 year old, reference volume
hundreds of detailed in-text illustrations throughout.
An early and important all-in-one resource.