Mammalia. : their various orders and habits popularly illustrated by typical species / by Louis Figuier, ... with 267 engravings, by MM. A. Mesnel, A. de Neuville, and E. Riou.
Figuier, Louis
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 3114734
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 606, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Not indigenous. Provenance: prize book label on front pastedown: "Presented by the Incorporated Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol, Trustees of the Hospital founded by Edward Colston … to Chas. D. Rosling for physl. geography & chemistry … 18th Oct. 1873". Stamped: 'The National Trust founded 1895'. Binding: nineteenth-century half green calf, green publisher's cloth over boards; gilt centrepiece: coat of arms of Colston's Hospital; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; spine gilt; maroon spine label (gilt-lettered); marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Figuier, Louis