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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

S. Babcock. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. New Haven, no publication date stated c. 1840. Blue textured cloth covered boards; wear at edges and corners and spine; 32 mo 3" - 4 3/4" tall; engraved illustrations; foxing throughout text; interior clean and unmarked; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; 16 pages.

Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Book. Acceptable . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green embossed boards showing a gilt insert of an insect on front board are intact and fairly bright whilespine is somwehat faded and binding a bit shaken. Front endpaper is missing but all other pages and illustrations are present clean and unmarked, if a bit darkened with age as are decjked page edges. Wlill be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance.

With engravings from original drawings

New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, 1830. Original printed wrappers [blank margins reinforced, repair to lower corner of rear wrapper, not affecting text or image]. Light toning, stitched, 16pp. Seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. Inner rear wrapper advertises the publisher's offerings. Good+. "The largest, the most intelligent, and most powerful of all land animals." Illustrations of elephants at work and play, tiger hunting with humans, hanging out with rhinoceros. Several editions, dated in the 1840s, were also published. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC records a few institutional locations.

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861, First edition. . original pictorial gilt green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, little rubbed at edges, complete, very slight foxing on a few leaves, but clean and very good copy. . 8vo [20 x 13 cm]; xiii, [i], [errata leaf], 500, 24 [ads] pp, 10 plates including frontis, numerous other engraved illus, index. . Catalogue of the British Museum Natural History p. 2084. Casey Wood 594. This is a major expansion of the author's earlier general work on Ceylon, covering all animals, birds, etc, with some emphasis on the elephant. There are two lists of birds, one of the birds of Ceylon, and the other of those peculiar to Ceylon, as well as lists of insects species, shells, leeches, etc. This copy has the additional errata sheet not found in all copies, after the first errata sheet. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Longman, 1861-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Half-leather cover shows minor wear, tear, and rubbing. Endpapers are rubbed. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

1861 CEYLON Natural History Sri Lanka Monkeys Elephant Illustrated Asia Tennent

James Emerson Tennent was a 19th-century British traveler who is best remembered for his appointed position as secretary of Ceylon. From his time living in Ceylon, he published a number of books which thorough describe his adventures and findings. His most notable work, simply entitled 'Ceylon', is reliable source of information regarding physical geography and natural history of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka.

This 1861 edition is an impressive, illustrated edition of Tennent's 'Ceylon' filled with full-page sketches of animals including reptiles, birds, monkeys, and an interesting view of an elephant capture!
Item number: #9570
Price: $499
TENNENT, James Emerson
Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes : Illustrative of the Habits and Instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.… Read More