The History of The Earth and Animated Nature, With Copius Notes and an Appendix by Captain Thomas Brown. 4 volumes complete.
Published by A Fullarton and Co., Glasgow., 1832
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Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, Staffs, United KingdomColophon Books (UK)
AbeBooks seller since January 2, 2015
Condition: Used - Very good
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4 volume set uniformly bound in a wine coloured morocco with gilt titles on the spines and marbled paper boards (all original), this set consists of an engraved frontispiece of the author and 108 tinted aquatint plates by Robert Scott of Edinburgh, showing 1000's of species in vignette form. (an unrecorded work by this engraver) and a folding plate of the height of the earth's mountains with side elevations, the plate list at the front of volumes one only lists 85 plates? all volumes clean and bindings tight and with minor very light rubbing, small engraved bookplate of "Robert Waugh, Durham" and the hand written date of "Bought 1849" to the last 3 volumes inside front board. CONTENTS: Volume 1 has Xvi pp + 552 pages + plates. Volume 2 has; IV pp + 552 pages + plates Volume 3 has; 567 pages + plates Volume 4 has; Vii pp + 703 pages inc index and plates. Small octavo, uniform bindings and size. *This set adds the technical terms added and new species by Captain Thomas Brown. (4 volumes 1832). NOTES: Robert Scott was a Scottish engraver who had a gallery in Edinburgh and died in 1841, this set is rare due to the myriad of creatures depicted and all done using the aquatint method of engraving which would have been more expensive and time consuming. **Captain T Brown was a naturalist who was curator of the Manchester Museum for 22 years, wrote several works on Conchology. He started to study nature when serving in the Forfar and Kincardine Militia based in Manchester at about this time.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The History of The Earth and Animated Nature, With Copius Notes and an Appendix by Captain Thomas Brown. 4 volumes complete.
- Author
- Goldsmith, Oliver. (Captain Thomas Brown editor)
- Publisher
- A Fullarton and Co., Glasgow.
- Publication year
- 1832
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Half-Calf
- Illustrator
- Robert Scott. (Scottish Engraver)
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Printing
- First Thus.
- Seller catalogs
- Antiquarian, Engraving/Print, Natural History
Colophon Books (UK)
Leek, Staffs, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since January 2, 2015
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We are a small, single-owner business. We have been operating on and off since 1977 and our stock is varied, leaning towards antiquarian and 19th century with the addition of original aquatint and lithographic, or woodcut engravings. Also maps and Ephemera - in fact, anything interesting on paper really. We have in stock every item we list. We do not use stock photographs, but photograph each item individually. We very rarely use "fine" or "mint" as a description, mainly due to the age and the fact that 99.9% of what we sell has been pre-owned and therefor Fine would not be a term for a book we sell despite its fine-like appearance. We always take items back unreservedly if not in the condition as described. We always try to describe fully.…
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