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Octavo, 84 handcoloured engraved plates with tissue-guards and accompanying text leaves. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards with some wear, titlepage dust-soiled with small ink-marks near lower edge and loss to upper fore-corner, plate of Elephant with small tear to fore-edge margin, occasional minor marking, but overall plates in very good condition, rare.

Large quarto, 302 pp. photographs, three chromolithographs including one of the Frill-necked Lizard. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth and top edge gilt, some slight rubbing and both hinges cracked and shaken otherwise a very good copy.