Modern Paintings And Pictures
Lot 261:
Description
A nineteenth-century natural history volume titled The Animal Kingdom, Arranged After Its Organization, Forming a Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to Comparative Anatomy. This work by Baron Cuvier features considerable additions by W. B. Carpenter and J. O. Westwood. The title page identifies it as a New Edition published in London by W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, S.W., and dated 1884.
The volume is bound in green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. The work is illustrated with 500 wood engravings and 36 steel engravings. These include numerous hand-colored plates. Visible plates include a frontispiece of giraffes under a leafy canopy, a plate of ducks including the Harlequin and Summer Duck (Plate XXXVI), a plate of parrots featuring Prince Maximilian’s Macaw and the Imperial Parrot (Plate XXXI), and a plate of Orthopterous insects (Plate XLII). The text is arranged in a double-column format in certain sections and includes scientific diagrams, such as the sternum of a parrot (page 206).
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