KNIGHT, Charles) edited by

The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. [In Two Volumes]. Vol.I: Mammalia. Birds; Vol. 2: Birds. Reptiles.Mollusc. Insects.

London. Charles Knight and Co. N.d. (c. 1844?). Folio. 35 cm, 399 & 432pp., 2 colour frontispieces (T. Landseer, artist), text in triple columns. around 5,000 woodcut illustrations, index, original green quarter leather over brown cloth, vol. I rebacked using original leather title labels, Vol.2 crudely repaired but ulilitarian, spine with raised bands & leather title labels, covers worn with some bubbling on Vol. 1, hinges reinforced, some leaf repairs, good sound working set (ds1). Item #41942

~ A extensive study of natural history with thousands of illustrations (each plate with twelve to twenty woodcuts). Although an author is not given, it is believed the text is by English naturalist, William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798-1864) Superintendent of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London. Noted animal artist Thomas Landseer, (credited with frontispieces) is probably the artist.

Price: $225.00