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Contents: William Smellie written by Joseph Moule, [John] Ray written by James Duncan, M.
Francois Peron written by Robert Hamilton, Huber written by Rev.
W.
Dunbar, Don Felix D'Azara and Hippolito Salviani both written by Robert Hamilton, Swammerdam and De Geer both written by James Duncan.
Originally published in successive volumes of the Naturalist's Librery, these Memoirs were re- printed in a single volume by popular request.
Frontispiece shows an engraving of Smellie, first title page decorated with large vignette engraving of an assemblage of birds, second plain title page, each memoir is fronted by an engraved portrait and has the pagination from the original book from which it is extracted.
Full calf prize binding , embossed Edinburgh Institution for Languages, Mathematics etc.
in gilt and with raised bands to spine with leather label in gilt.
Prize award details to front paste-down, dated 1844.
In very good condition throughout.
Although there are signs of a crack at the upper external hinge, the binding is still firm.
Extremely rare.
Size: 12mo
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