Goldsmith, Oliver. Fourteen handcolored wood-engravings of birds from "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature." First edition.. A Fullarton and Co, London and Edinburgh, circa 1847, 1847.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 22.6 x 24.5 cm. Handcolored wood-engravings.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Goldsmith, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. [and] A Life of the Author by Washington Irving [complete in two volumes]. A. Fullarton & Co., London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, 1847.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: liv, 536; 541 pages. With hand coloured title page to each, frontispiece of Goldsmith in Vol. 1, and 45 of the 46 plates called for in this edition [lacking xxi; the 24 supplementary plates were "not necessarily included in this edition" - directions to the binder]. All edges and endpapers marbled (top edge dusty); light scuffing to covers. Clean interiors; bindings sound. Text in double columns. Each plate retains the tissue guard; the colouring is supurb. Volume 1 dated 1846; volume 2: 1847.

Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada

GOLDSMITH Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom, translated from the French of Baron Cuvier, and copious Notes embracing Accounts of new Discoveries in Natural History; a Life of the Author by Washington Irving; and an Index to the whole Work. BRIGHT COPY OF GOLDSMITH'S 'ANIMATED NATURE'. Fullarton,, 1847.

Price: US$559.11 + shipping

Description: 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece, frontispiece to second volume COLOURED BY HAND, engraved and printed titles (THE FORMER COLOURED BY HAND), and 69 engraved plates ALL FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, first few leaves of first volume lightly browned, a few margins mildly spotted; strongly bound in nineteenth century half calf, green ribbed cloth sides, backs with five flat bands tooled in gilt, second compartments with red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in blind, red sprinkled edges, expertly recased with new grey endpapers to style, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate oF M. Hamilton Graham on front paste-downs. Crisp copy of a richly illustrated work notorious for completeness and placement of plates. Here the plates are placed throughout the two volumes by taxonomy rather than numerical sequence. WANTING ONLY THREE PLATES (21,31, 38) AND THUS UNUSUALLY NEAR COMPLETE.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom