MAMMALIA - THICK-SKINNED QUADRUPEDS. THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY ["Superior edition" with extensive hand-colouring] by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM - 1843

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1843. This would appear to be a "special" edition as unusually the background to the plates has also been coloured, rendering the plates far superior to the standard (and usual) edition where it is just the subject that has been coloured. Vol. V of the Mammalia (vol. IX overall), THICK-SKINNED QUADRUPEDS, frontispiece (Sir Hans Sloane), vignette title page, and 26 hand-coloured plates plus four uncoloured plates; complete and in accordance with the contents page. Bound in contemporary half red calf with marbled covered boards, burgundy title label; binding good and strong with some rubbing, corners a little worn, spine faded, title label slightly chipped. Contents clean and tight, plates clean and with their original tissue guards, of which a couple slightly chipped, no inscriptions, original end papers. A very good copy with superior hand-colouring. [note: the volume numbers to the engraved title page and the letterpress title page do not coincide - we have taken that to the engraved TP to mean the vol. no. of the Mammalia and that to the letterpress TP to mean the overal vol. no.). Half Leather. Very Good. 12mo (11 x 17.0cm).