[Rarebooks] FS: Attractively Bound Shaw's GENERAL ZOOLOGY, 18 vols. with 1048 plates

[Charles Agvent]

SHAW, George. GENERAL ZOOLOGY OR SYSTEMATIC NATURAL HISTORY. London: G. 
Kearsley/Thomas Davison, 1800-1826. Twelve (of fourteen) volumes bound 
in eighteen volumes comprising twenty-two parts and including index, 
bound in recent 3/4 polished calf leather and marbled boards with blind 
rules, gilt-lettered and decorated spines, and gilt-lettered brown 
morocco spine labels. Illustrated with engraved title pages and 1048 
plates. Includes 233 plates of mammals in 14 parts in 4 volumes; 140 
plates of amphibians in 2 parts in 2 volumes; 190 plates of fish in 4 
parts in 4 volumes; 139 plates of insects in 2 parts in 2 volumes; and 
346 plates of birds in 10 parts in 5 volumes. Minor foxing to the plates 
with many tissue guards still in place, text generally clean. Near Fine 
in a Fine, attractive binding. (#013438) $4,000

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