william markwick aylmer bourke lambert (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to, pp304 complete with all 24 articles and 15 b/w plates, 2 of them fold out, and 5 colour plates (some chromolithographs). Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Half brown leather binding over marbled boards with gilt titles to spine in good only condition with some rubbing to spine and boards and splitting to tail of spine. Inside except for some spots of foxing and a little toning, all pages and plates in very good clean and bright condition. A very nice copy of these Articles that include "Descriptions of Three rare Species of British Birds". By G. Montagu, "An Account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada. Dipus Canadensis". By Major-General Thomas Davies, "The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants". By James Edward Smith, "Observations on the Genus Pausus, "Description of a New Species". By Adam Afzelius, and "Aves Suffexienses: or, a Catalogue of Birds Found in the County of Sussex" by William Markwick. Scarce.