HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FAUNA. AND A GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD: Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom, Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Shells, and Insects, Including the Insects Destructive to Agriculture. By Sir John Richardson, William S. Dallas and T. Spencer Corbold, Assisted by William Baird and Adam White by HOLDER, Joseph B - n.d. [1877]

New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d. [1877]. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh and clean. Very light wear to bindings. Attractive, Near Fine set. Three quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1-2") volumes bound in later half light brown morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, top edges gilt. Illustrated with hundreds of text engravings and 143 lithographs, 37 of which are hand-colored. Early owner name "W.W. Smith/Trinity Hall/Washington Pa./NY, Nov. 27, 1891" on front blank of each volume with the faint red stamp "W.W. Smith" at the bottom bulked text edge of each volume. William Wrenshall Smith opened his home as Trinity Hall Academy in 1879, a boys’ military school. U. S. Grant Smith assumed control in 1895, after which there was a waiting list for enrollment. The academy closed in 1906.

Joseph B. Holder (1824-1888), educated at Harvard Medical School, was Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.