THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. ORNITHOLOGY. Vol. III. Gallinaceous Birds. The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds. Illustrated by Thirty-two Plates, Coloured. With Memoir of Aristotle by Andrew Crichton
Edinburgh, Scotland: W. H. Lizars, and Stirling and Kenny, 1834. First thus edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good- condition. Item #2892baX2
232 pages of text, followed by 32 + 4 pages of publisher's advertisement. Hardcover cloth binding is heavily worn, with the spine crudely taped, but remaining intact and functional and protective of the contents. Illustrated with a black & white engraving of Aristotle as the frontisportrait, a hand-colored half-title page, and thirty beautiful hand-colored plates. Complete with all plates and tipped-in errata slip tipped in. Ornithology, Birds, Ocellated Turkey; Pavo; Japanese Peacock; Polyplectron; Argus, Crested, Thibetian, Long-tailed Polyplectron, Argus Pheasant or Gigantic Argus; Gallus; Gigantic, Bankiva, Bronzed, Fork-Tailed, Sonnerat's Wild Cock; Phasianus; Ring-Necked, Diard's, Barred-Tailed, Soemmering's, Silver, Golden, Lady Amherst's; Euplocomus; Macartney Cock, Pucras Pheasant; Lophophorus; Impeyan; Tragopan; Nepaul or Horned, Golden-breasted, Black-Headed; Numida; Crested, Common Guinea Fowl, Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
Price: $400.00