Item #16141 The Imperial Natural History Picture Book.
The Imperial Natural History Picture Book.
The Imperial Natural History Picture Book.
The Imperial Natural History Picture Book.

The Imperial Natural History Picture Book.

New York & London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1886. First American edition. Hardcover. Children's folio natural history picture book with 22 chromolithograph plates (each measuring 10 x 12") and hundreds of black and white woodblock illustrations of animals. In addition to the usual suspects in color there is a beautiful color plate of a King Charles dog wearing a pale blue ribbon. B&W plates include the Tasmanian Wolf (thylacine), Emeu (sic) and Kangaroo. Pictorial cover in full red buckram. Striking pictorial cover with illustration in black, silver and green, with a black elephant and a walking elephant handler and silver embossed riders on a green platform on the elephant's back. Folio, color frontis, 64pp. Covers marked and stained (front cover illustration not affected), especially rear cover; spine ends, especially foot of spine chipped. Internally, plates clean and bright, no fox spotting. Item #16141

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