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Hartwig, Dr G.
Wild Animals of the Tropics
Publisher: Longmans, Green, And Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1887
Stock Code: 9491
Prize binding. First edition thus. Octavo in fours, pp. xii, 256. With frontispiece piece plate, with sixty-six illustrations throughout. Bound in full polished light calf with gilt Norfolk School armourial centrepiece and gilt fillet borders; gilt rolled board edges; five raised spine bands with gilt rolls and ornaments to spine compartments; magenta marbled fore-edges and endpapers. Lightly soiled and sunned to lower board with minor wear to one corner; some scattered foxing throughout in an otherwise tight, square, clean, copy free of ownership inscriptions or annotations. Handsomely bound illustrated prize copy taken from Hartwig’s larger work “The Tropical World”. With chapters on tropical bats, the sloth, and tortoises and turtles. £35.00