1711 - 1976 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
- Owner's tickets on htitle; (partly) sl. yellowed/ foxed. Bindings sl. rubbed, otherwise a fine set.
= Compises: 1. Cétacés; 2. Reptiles; 3. Poissons. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 2344. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Vol.5 inner hinge broken. All vols. spine-ends rubbed/ worn. Otherwise fine.
= Nissen, ZBI 2612.
- Vol.6 penultimate blank w. tear in inner margin. All vols. spine sunned; corners/ spine-edges sl. worn; one vol. upper joint splitting. Good set.
= American ed. of the Royal Natural History. Nissen, ZBI 2612.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed (incl. plates). Binding rubbed; corners showing; covers stained.
= Very delicately handcoloured plates, showing i.a. birds (eagle, pheasant, bird of paradise), a lion, tiger, polar bear, horses and dogs. Not in Nissen.
- From the library of Thomas Monro with his bookplate on each upper pastedown. Occas. trifle/ sl. foxed (incl. plates); 2 plates loose (probably added later). A few vols. professionally rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip.
= Nissen, IVB 870. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Trifle foxed.
= Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. Tweede Verzameling. Dertiende deel. Nissen, ZBI 4300.
AND 4 others, i.a. M. DE SERRES, Mémoire sur les causes de migrations des divers animaux, et particulièrement des oiseaux et des poissons (Haarlem, 1842, orig. wr., 4to) and W.G. VIGELIUS, Vergleichend-anatomische Untersuchungen über das sogenannte Pankreas der Cephalopoden (Amst., 1881, 4 tinted lithogr. plates, orig. wr., 4to).