Dr andrew wilson ed (4 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean age-toned contents.

Condizione: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean age-toned contents.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volumes I - IV of a five volume set. Green boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Covers each have small marks and their corners and edges are generally slightly bumped but spines are attractively decorated and not faded. Pages are lightly tanned and some carry foxing spots but text and images are clear. Extra charges may be requested to post all four volumes together.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First edition. A scarce example of this lavishly illustrated Victorian natural history from James Wylde and Andrew Wilson, embellished with colour plates. The first edition of the scarce 'Royal Natural History', a beautifully illustrated exploration of mammals, birds, reptiles, molluscs and insects. Bound across two volumes, in later cloth. Renewed endpapers. Undated, dated from the British Library. Profusely illustrated with over two thousand engravings, including thirty-five chromolithographic plates. Collated, complete. A comprehensive textbook systematically arranged into forty-five sub-groups, including American monkeys, seals, elephants, bats, shrews, bears, toothless animals, swimming birds, frogs etc. Edited by James Wylde, with an introduction to the study of natural history by Scottish zoologist Dr. Andrew Wilson. In a later cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and light marks to the boards. Rear hinge to Vol II starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound, with plate and p. 575-576 detached but present, and plate facing p. 713 detached but present. Pages are generally bright, with a few scattered spots and occasional tide marks. Offsetting to the endpapers. Archival repair to pp. 709-712, which has withstood notable tide marks. Ownership ink inscription to the front free endpapers. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book. …