The Desert World or, The Scenery, Animal and Vegetable Life, and Physical Character of the Wildernesses and Waste Places of the Earth. From the French of Arthur Mangin. / By the Translator of “The Bird,” by Michelet. With 160 Illustrations by W. Freeman, Foulquier, and Yan’Dargent. / New Edition, Revised.
London, Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872. Binding: Contemporary full brown calf boards with gilt text in centre encased by small blind tool inner border and gilt ruled outer border with gilt floral corner-pieces, board edges gilt, spine in six gilt compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt floral motifs, green morocco label on 2, red morocco label on 6. Edges and endpapers marbled. , Size: 4to, Illustration: Profusely illustrated with in-text and full-plate illustrations., Pages: P. (4), epigraph, advertisement, title, blank, v-xi, blank, 13-624, (4)., Category: Book Natural History. Edges rubbed, boards slightly scraped, otherwise a very good copy in decorative period binding. Item #B3065
Binding: Contemporary full brown calf boards with gilt text in centre encased by small blind tool inner border and gilt ruled outer border with gilt floral corner-pieces, board edges gilt, spine in six gilt compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt floral motifs, green morocco label on 2, red morocco label on 6. Edges and endpapers marbled. , Size: 4to, Illustration: Profusely illustrated with in-text and full-plate illustrations., Pages: P. (4), epigraph, advertisement, title, blank, v-xi, blank, 13-624, (4)., Category: Book Natural History.
Price: $275.00