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The Naturalist's Library. Dogs.Hamilton Smith, Charles, Lieut.-Col.. "The Natural History of Dogs. Caniae or Genus Canis of authors. Including also the Genera Hyaena and Proteles. Vol. I. - II.". Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1839 - 1840. First...
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W. H. Lizars
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1839
The Naturalist's Library. Dogs.Hamilton Smith, Charles, Lieut.-Col.. "The Natural History of Dogs. Caniae or Genus Canis of authors. Including also the Genera Hyaena and Proteles. Vol. I. - II.". Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1839 - 1840. First edition. Vol. I.: 267, (5) pp., 31 engraved full page plates (30 coloured) and another 2 engravings (a portrait of P. S. Pallas in the frontispiece and a depiction of "The Dogs of Mt. St. Bernard" on page (V) - the page with the engraved title of the series). Vol. II.: 299, (5) pp., 40 engraved full page plates (31 coloured; "Plates 32, 33, and 34, ... published at the end of Vol. II., having been ommitted in the First Volume"), another 2 engravings (a portrait of "Don Felix d'Azara" in the frontispiece and a depiction of the dog named "Fury" on page (V) - the page with the engraved title of the series) and another 9 illustrations in the text. 2 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. Orig. cloth bindings with gilt titles on spines.
Vol. IX. and X. of "The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Edited By Sir William Jardine, Bart" series. - Without the printed title page of the whole series.