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Bewick, Thomas

A General History of Quadrupeds

T Bewick, 1820

95.00 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1820
Place of printing
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Author
Bewick, Thomas
Publishers
T Bewick
Size
8.5 x 5.5 inches
Keyword
Animals, Nature, Engravings,
Cover description
No Jacket
Binding description
Half-Leather
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Inscription dated 1830 inside front board. No other added marks No creasing to covers, creasing to leather spine. Clean very tight pages with unmarked rubbed marbled boards and well-rubbed edges, foxing to end papers and a few other pages and dusty page edges. Gilt lettered leather spine and corners rubbed and top of spine slightly frayed. 528pp. The characters, descriptions and uses of the animals from the Adive (similar to a Jackal) to the Zorilla (or African skunk). Excellent figure engravings on wood by Thomas Bewick.
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