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1835 Taxidermy: Or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History
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Description
Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The fifth edition of this work, which is very scarce in all editions, and first published in 1820.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and four further engraved plates. Collated, complete.
A guide to all aspects of the art of taxidermy from Sarah Bowdich Lee, an English writer, illustrator, traveller, zoologist, botanist, and pteridologist.
Publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated September 1839.
With the label of the Guille-Alles Library to the front board, and their bookplate to the front pastedown, and their stamp to the front free endpaper.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with library label to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with label to front board age toned. Library bookplate to front pastedown, and stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with spotting to plates and leaves surrounding them.
Very Good
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