The animal Kingdom

by Baron Cuvier

$450 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. 4 volumes. 8vo. xxxii, 448, 1 ; xv, i , 475; xx, 535; xii, 545, 1 pp., including errata. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With 19 of 20 plates lacking the first plate in Volume 1 . Modern calf-backed marbled boards; some foxing to text leaves in Volume 1, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Bookplate in each volume of the Newburyport Public Library and dated in manuscript Jan. 8,

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