Samuel Maunder The Treasury of Natural History: or, A Popul...

Estimate

R400 - R600

Hammer

R300

Samuel Maunder

The Treasury of Natural History: or, A Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852

Small 8vo, xiv + 812pp. Original full leather hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to the spine. Stamped designs to the boards. All edges gilt. With frontispiece and various black and white illustrations throughout text.

Condition: Good. Ex-library copy, with one stamp to bottom of full title page, and sticker to spine. Light rubbing and light edgewear to boards and spine. Archival tape over sticker on spine and to small sections of boards. Light foxing to the first and last few pages. Previous bookseller’s label to front pastedown. Previous owner’s signature to full title page. Splits to gutters between a few pages. Still a well bound copy.