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Maynard

THE NATURALIST'S GUIDE In Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History, With a Complete Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts

James R. Osgood and Company, 1871

180.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1871
Place of printing
Boston
Author
Maynard
Publishers
James R. Osgood and Company
Edition
FIRST EDITION WITH FINE PROVENANCE AND AN UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT AND
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

First edition, second issue. A copy with fine Boston and scholarly provenance having come from the library of legal scholar and President of Harvard University (1909-1933) Abbott Lawrence Lowell, member of one of the Boston Brahmin families and with later provenance of two descendants. With frontispiece and ten plates of illustrations by E. L. Weeks. 8vo, in publisher's original green cloth, the upper cover decoratively lettered in gilt, rear cover as the front but in blind, the spine decorated and lettered within a gilt panel. ix, 170 pp. A very bright and fresh copy, internally fine and clean with little evidence of use or age, the cloth in very good order with a touch of minor mellowing from age to the spine and rear but in all a handsome and solid copy.
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