Author: STEWART, GAIL (EDITOR); PEALE, CHARLES WILSON & BARTRAM, WILLIAM (ARTISTS)
Title: The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations
Description: London and New York: Imprint Society, 1973. Hardcover. ISBN: 087636055X. A deluxe modern single-volume reprint edition of the original 3 volume set which was published in 1830, 1832 & 1833. With the original 56 plates (some in color) by Charles Wilson Peale and William Bartram, which depict a wide variety of American wildlife. Includes biographical sketches and portraits of Peale and Bartram. Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Includes an introduction by Wilson G. Duprey. --- In green quarter cloth over gold paper-covered boards with engraved illustration on front. Gilt-stamped titling on black spine block (repeated on slipcase). Slipcase covered in matching gold papers and with a repeat of the book's title page. --- With severe sunning to spine, else a sturdy, tightly-bound, bright copy. Slipcase with minor sunning and soiling; remains structurally sound.; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); xii, 151 pages. Very Good .
Keywords: 087636055x >>Birds >>Natural History >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings >>Wildlife, Animals, Life in the Wild
Title: The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations
Description: London and New York: Imprint Society, 1973. Hardcover. ISBN: 087636055X. A deluxe modern single-volume reprint edition of the original 3 volume set which was published in 1830, 1832 & 1833. With the original 56 plates (some in color) by Charles Wilson Peale and William Bartram, which depict a wide variety of American wildlife. Includes biographical sketches and portraits of Peale and Bartram. Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Includes an introduction by Wilson G. Duprey. --- In green quarter cloth over gold paper-covered boards with engraved illustration on front. Gilt-stamped titling on black spine block (repeated on slipcase). Slipcase covered in matching gold papers and with a repeat of the book's title page. --- With severe sunning to spine, else a sturdy, tightly-bound, bright copy. Slipcase with minor sunning and soiling; remains structurally sound.; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); xii, 151 pages. Very Good .
Keywords: 087636055x >>Birds >>Natural History >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings >>Wildlife, Animals, Life in the Wild
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 82964
- Book number: 82964