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Naturalist's Pocket Magazine: or Compleat Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature

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About This Item

Six volumes only of this rare eight-volume set. (Vol. VIII was discontinued after only 4 issues with 12 plates.)

With 352 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 360).

Incomplete set of this rare handy pocket-sized edition of 18th century natural history describing many newly discovered species.

Text and plates copied from accounts published by Count Buffon, George Edwards, George Shaw, James Bruce, Thomas Pennant, Maria Sybilla Merian and others.

Includes the extinct dodo and sukotyro, endangered animals and birds (Siau Island tarsier, white rhinoceros, polar bear, Indian bustard, great green macaw, wild water buffalo, banded cotinga, Russian mink, African grey parrot).

Also notable for the early images of plants and animals discovered in New South Wales, Australia (short-beaked echidna, kangaroo, black swan, eastern quoll, waratah, Banksia, etc.).

Half contemporary calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels, marbled boards scuffed, front board off Vol. VI. Some plates loose or trimmed, foxing and finger-marks to text and plates.

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Bookseller
Florilegius JP (JP)
Bookseller's Inventory #
FLO147
Title
Naturalist's Pocket Magazine
Author
Anonymous
Format/Binding
Half calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels
Book Condition
Used - Good-
Jacket Condition
None
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Harrison, Cluse and Co.
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1798-1800
Size
Duodecimo, 15 x 9cm
Weight
0.00
Keywords
illustrated, science, zoology, botany, natural history
Bookseller catalogs
Natural History;
Note
May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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About Florilegius

Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.

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