1903 The Natural History of Animals: The Animal Life of the World in its Various Aspects and Relations

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in four volumes, bound into eight half-volumes. First edition. A comprehensive study of the natural history of animals, covering a vast range of topics. The entirety of the set comprises: Volume I - Covers the structures, classifications and characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. With a coloured frontispiece, eleven plates, three of which are in colour, and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume II - Structure and classification of fishes and primitive vertebrates, various worms, zoophytes and others. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume III - Explores the food of animals. Including flesh-eating mammals, carnivorous birds, insectivorous reptiles, plant-eating molluscs and more. With a coloured frontispiece, four colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume IV - The food of animals continued. Then, discussing animal defenses, such as bodily characteristics, special precautionary habits. Moves on to animal respiration, covering species that breathe in water and those that breathe in air. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume V - Looks at animal movement, with muscular locomotion of higher invertebrates, birds which swim, walking of jointed-limbed invertebrates and more. With a coloured frontispiece, two colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume VI - Animal movement continued. Explores animal development, such as regeneration, and life histories of a large scope of species. With a coloured frontispiece, three colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume VII - Discusses the nerve system and sense-organs of animals, such as those backboneless. Moves on to animal instinct and intelligence and association of organisms. With a coloured frontispiece, three colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Volume VIII - Utilitarian zoology, such as fishes as food, With a coloured frontispiece, four colour plates and numerous in-text illustrations. With a coloured structure of the pigeon to attached to the board to the rear. Collated complete. Written by James Richard Ainsworth Davis, a British specialised writer of zoology and biology. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of some volumes.