Item #144161 New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects. Peter Brown.
New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects
New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects
New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects
New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects

New Illustrations of Zoology, Containing Fifty Coloured Plates of New, Curious, and Non-Descript Birds, with a Few Quadrupeds, Reptiles, and Insects

London: B. White, 1776. First edition. (viii), 136 pp.  4to. Illustrated with 50 hand-colored, engraved plates printed on rectos. Two title-pages; one in French, one in English. Each plate is accompanied by two descriptive texts; one French and one English. Contemporary full calf, this copy sympathetically rebacked. Modestly rubbed and worn, else very good indeed, some minor browning to pages, mostly very clean.  
Item #144161

Price: $6,000.00

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