Oliver Goldsmith & Baron Cuvier - A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - 1870

"With numerous notes from the works of the most distinguished
British and Foreign Naturalists. Illustrated by upwards of two thousand figures".

2 volumes. Illustrated edition 1873.
Chromolithograph plates.
One of the rare sets with the additional plates.

Half-leather over green cloth with decorative gilt borders.
Raised gilt bands, gilt title to spine.
Marbled endpapers and page-blocks.
Text in two-column format.

Volume I.
lxiii, 568 pages.
Lithograph portrait frontispiece.
Chromolithograph title vignette.
13 chromolithograph plates.
12 black & white plates.
1 full-page colour map.
In-text illustrations.

Volume II.
vii, 663 pages, [1].
Lithograph portrait frontispiece.
Chromolithograph title vignette.
23 chromolithographs.
21 black & white plates.
In-text illustrations.

"Goldsmith is now writing a Natural History and he will make it as
entertaining as a Persian tale" (Dr. Johnson). Part of an extract from
the publisher's advertisement, andcontinues "the art which Goldsmith
eminently possessed of saying everything he had to say in a pleasing
manner, the fascinating ease and beauty of his style, and the simple
and intelligible arrangement which he adopted, secured for his work
an extensive and steady patronage." [Publishers promotional article].

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