Lives of Eminent Naturalists with engraved Portraits accompanying each
- Collection : Ken Smith
- Publisher : W.H. Lizars
- Published In : Edinburgh
- Illustrations : additional engraved title-page, 6 engraved portraits
Description:
'We have been solicited so repeatedly for separate copies of the Memoirs and Portraits of the celebrated Persons which have been Published in the NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, and the internal interest contained in these Biographical Sketches themselves is such, as to induce us to bring out in a separate form and distinct from that Work, the present Volume ...' - Publisher's Advertisement.
Includes the short accounts of the lives, of Sir Hans Sloane (by J. Moule), Pliny (by A. Crichton), Werner (by J. Duncan), Camper (by R. Hamilton), John Hunter (by A. Crichton) and Maria Sibilla Merian (by J. Duncan), first published as introductory 'Memoirs' in individual volumes of various titles in 'Jardine's Naturalist's Library'.
Condition
Sm. 8vo, cont. full red leather, ornate gilt floral design to boards and spine, gilt ruled border to boards, aeg; some wear to head/foot of spine. Contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. An attractive copy.
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