Anatomical Model Mare (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). No date but probably 1920 or earlier. Fold out colour diagrams of a mare with key. A scarce book. This book has the name of a previous owner added. The binding is weak and the covers are worn. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK. Please email with your questions.

Condition: Good. London, pub date unknown; some damage to spine; back cover is sun faded; 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall (oblong); five color plates with key; interior clean and unmarked; 6 pages.

London; Vinton & Company; [no date, circa 1900]. Third edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Very good+. Black cloth backed off-white paper covered boards with black title and horse illustration pasted on. Light damp staining to front board. Minor bumping to corners and fading to rear board.Previous owner's name written in pencil to front board. Crease to plate III. Else is clean and bright. NAT/072423. Book.

A set of elaborate moveable books depicting the anatomy of farmyard animals. Each includes five layers of folding colour diagrams showing the skeleton, arteries and veins, muscles, and organs, accompanied by a key. It was printed in Bavaria, a prestigious centre of moveable books and home to skilled artisanal paper engineers such as Ernest Nister and Lothar Meggendorfer. This is the second edition of the set. Six works, oblong quarto. Each 8 pp. and with folding chromolithographic illustration comprising two large overslips and multiple lift-the-flap tabs representing internal anatomy. Original printed boards, black cloth backstrips, wire-stitched as issued. Foxing, toning, and soiling to boards and contents, wear to backstrips, wire-stitches rusted but holding firm, outer margins of contents with a few chips and damp stains, a handful of neat repairs to folding stubs, colours bright: in very good condition.