1844 MONKEYS Jardine Illustrated Primate Mandrill Baboon Color Evolution Macaque

1844 MONKEYS Jardine Illustrated Primate Mandrill Baboon Color Evolution Macaque

Sir William Jardine was a 19^th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, ‘The Naturalist’s Library’.

This fine 1833 edition of Jardine’s ‘Mammalia’ is beautifully color illustrated with 30 engravings of various species of monkeys! The plates from Jardine’s works are exceedingly desirable and are found framed and displayed by themselves. This volume showcases illustrations and descriptions of simpai monkey, gray langers, white-eyed mangabey monkeys, lion-tailed macaque, chacma baboon, and the mandrill!

Item number: #21628

Price: $499

JARDINE, Sir William

The Naturalist’s Library, Mammalia… Monkeys

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, Longman…Curry…1844.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [2], 230
  • 30 hand-colored engraved plates, plus portrait frontispiece and vignette title page
• References: Lowndes 1192
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11.5cm)

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