[Rarebooks] F/S Jardine's Monkeys

[Garry R Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following postpaid and net to all in the US @$195. For use as a binding copy or a source of colored plates. 

Jardine, Sir William. The Naturalist’s Library. Mammalia. Vol. I. Monkeys. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, & Stirling and Kenney; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, London; And W. Curry, Jun. & Co., Dublin, 1833.
First Edition; duodecimo; vi, (7)-230, (26, 12) ads. with half-title. engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title with hand-colored vignette of a monkey; thirty, (30) hand-colored engraved plates of monkeys, text illustrations; tipped-in errata slip; tan cloth boards, green endpapers; externally a poor copy, lacking the spine, signatures separated but complete with all pages and plates present; Some light foxing. Previous owner’s bookplate, John C. Allen. Complete copies are a bit scarce in today’s market.