Cuviers Animal Kingdom, 4 vol.
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3 200 SEK
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3 000 SEK
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CUVIER´S ZOOLOGY IN ENGLISH 1834. CUVIER, GEORGES. The Animal Kingdom, Arranged According to its Organization, Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy. By Baron Cuvier. With Figures Designed after Nature: The Crustacea, Arachnides, & Insecta, by M. Latreille... Translated from the latest French Edition. With additional notes, and illustrated by nearly 500 additional plates. In four volumes. I-IV. London, G. Henderson, 1834.
8vo. 220 x 145 mm. (2), ii, xxxi, (1 blank), 197-204, 380, xxxiii-xlvii, (1), xviii, viii, 412, xvii-xxxv, (1 blank), xxii, xvi, 472, ix-xxxv, (1 blank), xxiv, (2), ii, vii, (1 blank), 544, ix-xliv, xxxiii pp. 4 engraved extra titles, 7 portraits, 745 plates, mainly in coulor, 8 of which folding.
Later (20th century) half calf with gilt spines with red and green labels, marbled boards and edges. Occasional foxing. Offsetting from coulor plates on text. Some damp in beginning of volume I. 4 volumes.
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Auktionsnummer:
491334
Date:
2017-10-16