Mammalia: Introduction to Mammalia. The Naturalist's Library Vol I.
Charles Hamilton Smith: (series editor Sir William Jardine):
Edinburgh:
W.H. Lizars,
1843.
First edition.
[iv], xi-xiv, [15]-313pp, illustrated by (27 of) thirty-one coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Dru Drury, and an additional engraved title. Lacks plates 13, 20*, 23, & 31. Aside from bats, bears, and anteaters, this vol includeds racoons and less familiar creatures, such as Gwatkin's Galidictis. Contents very good. Nicked fore-edge to Plate 1. 16.5x1.5cms, recased in the original marbled boards, with new spine and corners of glazed brown cloth, with red labels to spine. Very nice copy, lacking 4 plates.
VG+.
[Item ID: 18436070]
£70.00