A New Dictionary of Natural History;
or, compleat universal display of animated nature. With accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals, elegantly coloured.
Stock Code 111170
London, printed for Harrison and Co., 1785
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Illustrated with 100 hand-coloured plates. The first edition of William Fordyce Mavor's (1758-1837) attractively illustrated A New Dictionary of Natural History, published under the pseudonym William Fredric Martyn.
With 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after specimens in the collection of the London Leverian Museum, established by Sir Ashton Lever in 1774. The work includes four fine plates of butterflies by the entomologist Moses Harris (d.1787), generally regarded as one of the greatest insect artists, as well as illustrations depicting parrots, monkeys, whales, shells, fish etc.
First edition; 2 vols in 1; folio (37 x 25 cm); titles in red and black, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates, many with tissue-guards, bookplate to front pastedown, old pencil annotations to rear pastedown, ink stain to top-margin of preliminary essay, occasional slight spotting, the odd marginal tear; contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked retaining original spine, gilt in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco title-piece, corners repaired, a very good copy.
Freeman 2510; Lisney pp306-307; McGill/Wood p.453; Nissen ZBI 2729; ESTC T81840.
With 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after specimens in the collection of the London Leverian Museum, established by Sir Ashton Lever in 1774. The work includes four fine plates of butterflies by the entomologist Moses Harris (d.1787), generally regarded as one of the greatest insect artists, as well as illustrations depicting parrots, monkeys, whales, shells, fish etc.
First edition; 2 vols in 1; folio (37 x 25 cm); titles in red and black, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates, many with tissue-guards, bookplate to front pastedown, old pencil annotations to rear pastedown, ink stain to top-margin of preliminary essay, occasional slight spotting, the odd marginal tear; contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked retaining original spine, gilt in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco title-piece, corners repaired, a very good copy.
Freeman 2510; Lisney pp306-307; McGill/Wood p.453; Nissen ZBI 2729; ESTC T81840.
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