[Linnaeus, Sir Charles]
£4,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A Genuine and Universal System of Natural-History... London: printed for the proprietor and sold by Champante and Whitrow..., [1794-1810?] volumes 2-14 (ie. 13 volumes only of 14), volumes 2-7 with the title A Universal System of Natural-History and without Linnaeus's name, 386 hand-coloured plates (the full 14 volumes should contain 424 plates), contemporary straight-grained morocco, some darkening and spotting to various plates and pages, a few plates a little trimmed affecting captions, some dampstaining to volume 3, covers rubbed and some are becoming detached, spines chipped (13)