The treasury of natural history, or, A popular dictionary of zoology : in which the characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera, and species, are combined with a variety of interesting information illustrative of the habits, instincts, and general economy of the animal kingdom / by Samuel Maunder.
Samuel Maunder (1785-1849)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3164840
Summary
Bibliographic description
Sixth edition, revised and corrected, with an extended supplement. xvii, [1], 798 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (woodcuts) ; 12mo. Uniformly bound and shelved with The treasury of geography (commenced by Maunder, completed by Hughes). Provenance: manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "Herbert W Dent / 2nd Queen's Royals / March 1875.". Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; blind rolled inner border; blind corner pieces; four false bands; spine gilt; lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Maunder's Natural history'; edge rolled in gilt; marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Samuel Maunder (1785-1849), author Thomas Spencer Cobbold, editor