Elements of Zoology (BOUND WITH GRIFFIN'S SCIENTIFIC CIRCULAR NOS. 5 & 6 DATED DECEMBER 1850 A DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF CABINETS AND COLLECTIONS OF CHEMICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR PRIZES AND PRESENTS...) by Schoedler, Friedrich (Richard Griffin & Co.) - 1854

London: Richard Griffen & Co, 1854. This edition described as second edition and published in 1854. Translated from the sixth German edition by Henry Medlock. Pages of the main text are numbered iv + 471-583. This section is illustrated by delightful little woodcuts of animals and anatomical drawings. This is followed by an advert leaf for the cabinet edition of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana followed by a catalogue headed "Griffin's Scientific Circular, Nos 5 & 6, December 1850, Price 4 D" This is paginated 65-95 with descriptions, illustrations and prices of scientific instruments and apparatus. All bound together in the original cloth covered flexible boards with the original label pasted to the top board, There is an old school prize label of Herriot's Foundation School pasted to the fixed front endpaper dated 1855 and presented by the governors of George Herriot's Hospital. Some rubbing to the binding; book has a lean, some pages a little dust marked but overall very good for its age and a survivor in its totallly original binding as issued. A curious, unusual piece, especially interesting for the Griffen catalogue bound in at the end.. Original Cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo.