[Rarebooks] FS: HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FAUNA, 1877, Attractively Bound with Hand-Colored Plates

[Charles Agvent]

HOLDER, Joseph B. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FAUNA. AND A GENERAL NATURAL 
HISTORY OF THE WORLD: 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, Including the 
Insects Destructive to Agriculture. By Sir John Richardson, William S. 
Dallas and T. Spencer Corbold, Assisted by William Baird and Adam White. 
New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d. [1877]. First Edition. Three quarto 
(8-1/2" x 11-1-2") volumes bound in later half light brown morocco 
leather with matching corners and marbled boards, matching marbled 
endpapers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, top 
edges gilt. Illustrated with hundreds of text engravings and 143 
lithographs, 37 of which are hand-colored. Early owner name "W.W. 
Smith/Trinity Hall/Washington Pa./NY, Nov. 27, 1891" on front blank of 
each volume with the faint red stamp "W.W. Smith" at the bottom bulked 
text edge of each volume. William Wrenshall Smith opened his home as 
Trinity Hall Academy in 1879, a boys’ military school. U. S. Grant Smith 
assumed control in 1895, after which there was a waiting list for 
enrollment. The academy closed in 1906. Contents fresh and clean. Very 
light wear to bindings. Attractive, Near Fine set.

Joseph B. Holder (1824-1888), educated at Harvard Medical School, was 
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural 
History in New York. (#019995)        $1,500

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