Taxidermy: or, the art of collecting, preparing, and mounting objects of natural history. For the use of Museums and Travellers. with plates

Sarah Lee

Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,, 1829

About this Item

162, 5 plates by T.E. Bowdich, publisher's original blue card boards with paper spine. Front cover detached, rear cover very loose, spine mostly lost, plates foxed, Bookplate of zoologist and anthropologist Desmond Morris on fpd. At the head of the title page, a 19th century gift inscription "Edward Snell Wallis Esq, from his sister" and the owner inscription of L. Harrison Matthews, zoologist and author of books on British Mammals.

Seller Inventory # 0025003

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taxidermy: or, the art of collecting, preparing, and mounting objects of natural history. For the use of Museums and Travellers. with plates
• Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,
• Publication Date: 1829
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel and Exploration