Search Results: fauna boreali americana or the zoology of by richardson sir john

Paperback / softback. New.

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: John Murray, 1829. First Edition. The first of an ambitious four-part series devoted to the natural history of the Arctic regions. The Fauna Boreali-Americana was based on information Richardson collected on Franklin’s two arctic overland expeditions, 1819-22 and 1825-27, in his capacity as surgeon-naturalist. This volume on mammals was composed entirely by Richardson. The second, third and fourth parts on birds, fish and insects appeared in 1831, 1836, and 1837 respectively. Arctic Bib. 14491. Lande S1924. Morgan p. 319. Peel 91. Sabin 71026. Streeter VI 3700. TPL 1454. Wagner-Camp 39. 4to. pp. 3 p.ol., [ix]-xlvi, [2], 300. 28 etched plates by Thomas Landseer. 2 text illus. modern bds. (some offsetting from plates, small embossed library stamp on title)

London: John Murray. 1829. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author to John McDiarmid. 4to. Publisher's original grey paper-covered boards with printed paper title label to the spine. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 28 black and white etched plates. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and tight with minor cracking to the head of the joints and a little wear to the extremities. The contents, with a previous owner's (early twentieth century) bookplate to the front pastedown, light offsetting from the plates to the facing text pages and faint spotting to the edges of the plates, are otherwise wonderfully clean and bright throughout. The plates themselves remain bold and fresh. A superb copy, entirely in its original state. Inscribed by John Richardson in black ink to the half title page "To John McDiarmid Esq. / from his friend The Author". The first part this monumental work on the natural history of the Arctic by Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), the… Read More

London: John Murray, Richard Bentley and Josiah Fisher, 1829- 1837, 4 vols, 4to, (275 x 200mm), Contemporary red half morocco gilt, with 110 engraved plates of which 72 are hand-coloured, a very nice large uncut copy.
Scarce Complete Copy of the First Edition of this Rare Work on the Natural History of the Arctic.
Sir John Richardson (1787–1865), surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, went on Sir John Franklin's first two Arctic expeditions as ship's doctor and naturalist, and made observations and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian Arctic.
On his return to England after the second expedition he began to write this four-volume work of natural history, first published between 1829 and 1837. A volume is dedicated to each of the classes of mammal, bird, fish and insect, which are found in the Canadian Arctic. This work is an interesting example of pre-Darwinian natural history, full of detailed descriptions of the appearance, anatomy and behaviour of the… Read More