A Complete System of Natural History, founded on the Linnaean arrangement of animals; with popular descriptions in the manner of Goldsmith and Buffon.

Mavor, W.

Published by Dublin: Printed by John Shea for P.Wogan et al, 1802

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cr8vo, 293, [1]pp Illustrated by forty-four copper-plates representing upwards of one hundred and seventy of the most curious objects. Contemporary full brown leather with gold rule device around upper and lower covers. Page 115/6 lacking 1/4" x 1" piece from fore-edge affecting a few words of text, plate 44 close cropped losing 10% of the louse, part of one wing of the locust and the fore part of the ? scorpion, plate 42 close cropped losing a small part of the antenna of the Tchneumon, small ink blot affecting the top 1/4" of 45 pages, not affecting the text or the illustrations on the plates, a little browned, lacking a small amount of the leather at the head and foot of the backstrip otherwise good copy with an interesting Dublin bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown as follows ' H. Fitzpatrick, Printer and book-seller to the R. C. College, Maynooth, No. 4 Capel-Street, near Essex-Bridge, Dublin. Rare, WorldCat and COPAC locate only 3 copies of the 1802 Philadelphia edition, no Dublin edition. First edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Complete System of Natural History, founded on the Linnaean arrangement of animals; with popular descriptions in the manner of Goldsmith and Buffon.
• Publisher: Dublin: Printed by John Shea for P.Wogan et al
• Publication Date: 1802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good