(NATURAL HISTORY) Jardine William The Naturalists Library

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Jardine, William. The Naturalist's Library. Uncolored portrait frontispieces, uncolored and colored additional titles, approximately 1280 hand-colored plates of animals, birds, fishes, and insects. 40 volumes, complete. Small 8vo, publisher's cloth; varying slight wear but quite clean overall; occasional frontispiece or title-page loose, otherwise internally clean; bookplates. Mix set, with all but one published in London rather than Edinburgh and by mixed publisher's (either Allen or Chatto & Windus), volume 9 of birds series is from the Edinburgh edition of 1844 and appeared as volume 19 in that series as noted on the title-page. Nissen ZBI 4708. Principally London, [1850s-70s]

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with--Smith's The Natural History of the Human Species, issued to accompany the Jardine set and in the same binding. London: Allen, 1870s Martin's A General History of Humming-Birds, noted as volume 3 of the hummingbirds on the backstrip but without a volume number on the title-page. London, Bohn, circa 1880.