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Jardine, Sir William (1800-1874) The Naturalist's Library, Mixed Sets, Eighteen Volumes. Edinburgh: Lizars, 1830s-1840s. Octavo volumes from different sets, each with hand-colored illustrations of natural history subjects, including: hummingbirds, entomology, gallinaceous and game birds, ruminants, fishes of Guiana, beetles, felines, British fishes, British moths and sphinxes, bees, dogs, British quadrupeds, birds of Western Africa, horses, and flycatchers (some volumes duplicated); [together with] volume one of Lauder & Brown's The Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, with illustrations by Joseph Kidd, Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1833, with hand-colored plates; all in cloth, some unopened, some with water damage and binding defects. (18)
Estimate $600-800
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