Lot 634
DONOVAN E.
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£4,230
Description
The naturalist's repository, or miscellany of exotic natural history, exhibiting rare and beautiful specimens of foreign birds, insects, shells, quadrupeds, fishes, and marine productions … 1st edition, 5 volumes in 2, 180 hand coloured plates, several plates mis-numbered, full green morocco, the covers with blind tooled borders, the spines decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., lower cover of vol. 2 with small scuff mark, some slight offsetting from the plates, 8vo., London: for the author and Simpkin & Marshall, 1834 [2]
Note: Nissen ZBI 259