2 volumes. Contains 6 parts. 72 hand-coloured plates.
Contemporary half-leather on marbled boards with marbled page edges.
72 hand-coloured plates. Text in two-column format.
Volume I.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author.
Hand-coloured engraved title-page.
liv, 536 pages + hand-coloured plates.
Introductory view of the Animal Kingdom.
Biographical sketch of Goldsmith by Washington Irving.
Part I. History of the Earth.
Part II. History of Quadrupedes
Volume II.
Part III. History of Birds.
Part IV. History of Fishes.
Part V. History of Frogs, Lizards and Serpents.
Part VI. History of Insects.
Beautiful hand-coloured plates, now very rare to find.
Perhaps one of the most recognisible publications on Natural History.
"Goldsmith is now writing a Natural History and he will make it as entertaining
as a Persian tale" (Dr. Johnson). Part of an extract from the publisher's advertisement,
and it continues "the art which Goldsmith eminently possessed of saying everything he had to
say in a pleasing manner, - the fascinating ease and beauty of his style, - and the simple and
intelligible arrangement which he adopted, - secured for his work an extensive and steady
patronage."
Shipping weight 4000g
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- Binding Condition: good
- Overall Condition: very good
- Size: 25.5 x 18 cm.
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