JARDINE, WILLIAM. 1800-1874.
The Naturalist's Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, [1843].
40 volumes. 12mo (165 x 105 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, engraved vignettes on title pages, numerous engraved plates, mostly hand-colored. Uniform dark green half morocco, top edges gilt. Joints cracking, one upper cover detached, some offsetting from plates. Sold not subject to return.
A complete set of this expansive work on the science of zoology in the mid-19th century. The sections are devoted to various disciplines: ornithology, mammalia, ichthyology and entomology. Nissen ZBI 4708; Wood p 405; Zimmer p 326.