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London: B. Fellowes, 1839. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 1839 printing. Small 8vo. Original cloth with blind-stamped lozenge designs to front and rear. Gilt titled spine. 307 pp. B/w frontispiece illustration from engraving (depicting head of Waterton's "Nondescript" ape-man taxidermy hoax). Textblock clean and bright throughout and binding sound. Early owner's printed name-plate to front pastedown, and a small 20th C. inscription to ffep. VG
Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824, with Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History by Waterton, Charles - 1839
by Waterton, Charles
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Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824, with Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History
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London: B. Fellowes, 1839. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 1839 printing. Small 8vo. Original cloth with blind-stamped lozenge designs to front and rear. Gilt titled spine. 307 pp. B/w frontispiece illustration from engraving (depicting head of Waterton's "Nondescript" ape-man taxidermy hoax). Textblock clean and bright throughout and binding sound. Early owner's printed name-plate to front pastedown, and a small 20th C. inscription to ffep. VG
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Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824, with Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History
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Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history
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London: Printed for B. Fellowes (Successor to Mr. Mawman), 1828.. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 341, (1) pp. Frontispiece, a little darkened to edges, some other mild spotting. Uncut in modern quarter cloth, marbled sides, printed spine label. First published 1825.
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Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, And the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, And 1824. With Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History.
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For J. Mawman. London. 1825. 4to.. pp. vii, (i) blank, 326. Engraved frontispiece, a couple of text woodcuts. Early half calf and marbled boards, spine ends and edges rubbed, a little wear to top corners, frontispiece with image browned and offset to title, heraldic bookplate of [JOHN?] WODEHOUSE [1826-1902], KIMBERLY (sic), dated 1838 [somewhat puzzling as Wodehouse was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866), ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar and bibliographer, with his purchase notes at the front. *GARRISON-MORTON #2074 - 'Includes a detailed description of the paralysing effects of curare'.
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