Persian Deer Cervus Maral. Winter

by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

$150 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine plate from John Edward Gray's Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley, a comprehensive visual survey of one of the largest private menagerie's in Victorian England. Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby 1775-1851 was a learned naturalist, who pursued his avid interest in zoology after a brief and unfulfilling political career. In addition to his frequent contributions to the Zoological Society's journal Proceedings, Stanley served as president of the Linnaean

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