Lot 1108 , Cuvier, (Georges) Baron - The Animal Kingdom Arranged According to its Organization. Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy... with figures Designed After Na

° Cuvier, (Georges) Baron - The Animal Kingdom Arranged According to its Organization. Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy... with figures Designed After Nature. Illus. with port. frontis to each vol. (except Vol IV text), 718 (only?) (mostly hand coloured) plates, library binding brown buckram, gilt lettering to spines, endpapers renewed. 8vo. 4 vols in 8 (4 vols text dated 1834, 4 vols plates dated 1837). London: G. Henderson.
£200-300

Condition:
Some staining to titles and portraits, occasional light stains to plates. There is some light browning to the text including titles and frontispiece portraits, light damp stains to vol 2 of the text and plate vols 3 and 4. plates generally bright and clean with some marginal browning and a small number of plates effected by the damp stains (more evident to rear of plates) and some further light spotting/ browning. Binding of one volume wrinkled slightly at head. One plate with sl. surface loss to a small area.

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