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Lives of Eminent Naturalists with engraved Portraits accompanying each

Name: Lives of Eminent Naturalists with engraved Portraits accompanying each
Author: MOULE, J.; CRICHTON, A.; DUNCAN, J.; HAMILTON, R

Book Description

vi, 18-92, 17-82, 17-47, 17-82, 17-83, 17-46 pp., additional engraved title-page, 6 engraved portraits, Sm. 8vo, cont. full red leather, ornate gilt floral design to boards and spine, gilt ruled border to boards, aeg; some wear to head/foot of spine. Contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. An attractive copy.

Dealer Notes

'We have been solicited so repeatedly for separate copies of the Memoirs and Portraits of the celebrated Persons which have been Published in the NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, and the internal interest contained in these Biographical Sketches themselves is such, as to induce us to bring out in a separate form and distinct from that Work, the present Volume ...' - Publisher's Advertisement.
Includes the short accounts of the lives, of Sir Hans Sloane (by J. Moule), Pliny (by A. Crichton), Werner (by J. Duncan), Camper (by R. Hamilton), John Hunter (by A. Crichton) and Maria Sibilla Merian (by J. Duncan), first published as introductory 'Memoirs' in individual volumes of various titles in 'Jardine's Naturalist's Library'.

Author MOULE, J.; CRICHTON, A.; DUNCAN, J.; HAMILTON, R

Date 1840

Binding Full Leather

Publisher W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh

Condition Very good

Price: £95.00

Offered by Pemberley Books

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