Search Results: the natural history of dogs canidae by lieut col charles hamilton

EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS, 1839 A good set, complete in 2 volumes, covering both wild and domestic dogs. In contemporary half leather bindings with small gilted raised bands to spine; compartments for title and volume labels (now missing) and 3 further compartments with textured leather. Cloth boards. Vol I has the armorial bookplate of Sidney Wentworth of Longstowe Hall to the front pastedown endpaper and the signature of A Shafto Barthropp (a member of the same family) to the fep. Vol II also has the signature at the fep. Vol I with 30 hand coloured and 1 plain plate and Vol II with 36 hand coloured plates and 1 plain un-numbered plate placed in the text. Vol I: 1839 - covering wild dogs - half title; frontispiece portrait of Pallas; black and white vignette title page; 2 letterpress titles; advert; contents listing; half title; Memoir of Pallas and text 267pp; 30 hand coloured and 1 plain plate to rear all with tissue guards. Vol II: 1840 - covering domestic breeds (as well as some feral) - half… Read More