[Rarebooks] F/S: some engravings - Xmas present

[naturama]

Dear Biblians:

A nice idea for Xmas presents

we are please to offer some nice engravings taken from:

Richardson, Sir John; William S. Dallas, T. Spencer Cobbold, William 
Baird, Adam White
  The Museum of Natural History, being a Popular Account of the 
Structure, Habits, and
Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom; 
Quadrupeds, Birds,
Reptiles, Fishes, Shells, and Insects, with a History of the American Fauna.
London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, William Mackenzie, [1859-62].
All are handcoloured
The plates was engraved by Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803-1879)

available plates:

MAMMALS
Marsupialia (Pouched Mammals)
pl. 29: Kangaroo Rat, Great Kangaroo, Wombat
pl. 30: Virginian Opossum, Phalangista, Spiny bandicot
pl. 31: Dasyure, Porcupine Ant-eater, Duck biled Platypus

Rodentia
pl. 14: Great flying squirrell, Alpine marmot, Cape Jerboa, Egyptian Jerboa
pl. 15: Dormouse, black rat, lemming, common beaver
pl. 16: Common hare, calling hare, coypu (nutria), common porcupine

Sdentata
pl. 17: Three-toed sloth, peba (armadillo), Great Ant-eater, 
Long-tailed manis  (pangolin)

Ruminantia
pl. 18: American Bison, Thibet sheep, Roxky Mountain sheep
pl. 19: Ibex goat, gbu, common antelope
pl. 20: Oryx, Portax (antelope)
pl. 21: Roebuck, Elk
pl. 23: dromedary, Lama, Java musk deer

Carnivora
pl. 7: Wolf, Fennec, fox
pl. 9: striped hyaena, civet, egyptian mongoose
pl. 10: skunk, pine martin, common otter
pl. 11: Wolverine, Raccoon, Brown coati
pl. 12: Polar bear, common seal


BIRDS

pl. 1: Araban vulture, egyptian vulture, king vulture
pl. 2: Cream bellied falcon, bearded vulture, martial eagle
pl. 3: rough-legged buzzard, secretary bird, brown owl
pl. 5: chimney swallow, house martin, common swift, esculent swallow
pl. 10: long.tailed titmose, red-breast, mocking bird, spotted flycatcher
pl. 13: banded tanager, chaffink, ortolan, skylark
pl. 21: nandu, ostrich, cassowary
pl. 22: apteryx, emu, common thick knee, great bustard
pl. 23: brazen winged courser, collared pratincole, gloden plover, 
grey sand piper, pied oyster catcher, cariana
pl. 24: common heron, great egret, boat bill 
pl. 25: white stork, roseate spoonbill, senegal jabiru
pl. 26: tufted umbre, Madagascar open bill, Milky ibis
pl. 27: avocet, common snipe, chinese jacana
pl. 28: water rail, horned screamer, sultana bird, gallinule
pl. 29: Red flamingo, wild goose, pigeon goose

each plates: euro 10.00

ordering 5 plates you pay only 40.00 euro

images on request

With regards

Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli
naturama