product description
Antiquarian books each with more than 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates with landscape background and portrait- frontispiece. Volume 1 to 6, some first editions, 1835 - ca. 1860, Edinburgh/London, editor William Jardine.
The attractive plates are in remarkably fine condition, bright and delicately colored.
- Volume 1 The Perch Family, William Jardine, 2 specimen: 1835 (first edition) and 18??, 37 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
- Volume 2 The Natural History of Fishes, J. S. Bushnan, 3 specimen: 2x 1840 (first edition), 1853, 34 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
- Volume 4 Fishes of British Guiana, part 2, Robert H. Schomburgk, 1 specimen: 18??, 32 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
- Volume 5 A History of British Fishes, Vol. 1, R. Hamilton, 2 specimen: 18??, 36 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
- Volume 6 A History of British Fishes, Vol. 2, R. Hamilton, 1 specimen: 18??, 36 hand-coloured lithographed plates.