A History of The Earth and Animated Nature - With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: "A Life of the Author", by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]). This item is unavailable.A History of The Earth and Animated Nature - With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: "A Life of the Author", by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work])

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage. The two Volumes include the following chapters: Volume I: - History of the Earth (With a Survey of the Globe from the light of Astronomy and Geography) - Of Fossil-Shells and other Extraneous Fossils - Of the Internal Structure of the Earth - Of Caves and Subterraneous Passages - Of Mines, Damps and Mineral Vapours - Of Volcanoes and Earthquakes - Of the Appearance of New Islands and Tracts and the Disappearing of others - Of Mountains, Water and of the Origin of Rivers - Of the Ocean in general and it ssaltness - Of the Tides, Motion and Currents of the Sea - An Essay towards a Natural History of the Air - Of Winds, Irregular and Regular - Of Meteors History of Quadrupeds - The Infancy of Man - Of Puberty - Of Sleep and Hunger - Of Old Age and Death - Of the Varieties in the Human Race - Of Monsters - Of Mummies, Wax-works etc. - Of Quadrupeds in General, compared to Man - Animals of the Horsekind - Animals of the Cow kind - Carnivorous Animals - Animals of the Hare kind - Animals of the Rat kind and other species - Animlas of the Monkey kind - Of the Elephant, Rhinoceros and other species of Quadrupeds Volume II (Zoology with Ornithology / Entomology / Fish etc). History of the Birds - Of Birds in General - Of the Generation, Nestling and Incubation of Birds - Of the Division of Birds - Of the Ostrich, Emu, Cassowary and Dodo - Rapacious Birds - Birds of the Poultry - kind - Birds of the Pie kind - Birds of the Sparrow kind - Birds of the Crane kind - Of Water- Fowl History of the Fishes - Of Cetaceous Fishes - Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of Spinous Fishes - Of Crustaceous and Testaceous Fishes History of Frogs, Lizards and Serpents - Of Frogs and Toads - Of the Lizard kind - Of Serpents &c. History of Insects - Of Insects in General - Insects of the Second Order - Insects of the Third Order - Insects of the Fourth Order - Of the Zoophytes List of Content and Plates and with a General Alphabetical Index to the whole work Illustrations include (selection only): Plate I: Fossil Madreporite from Steeple Ashotn / Strobulis / Fossil - Leaves / Fig-formed Alcyonite / A Madreporite from Bristol / Plate II: A Chrysalis / Plants found in Chalcedony / Globules of Silex by Mr. Conybeare / The Lily Encrinite / Mosses Plate III: Specimens of Encrinitic Marble / The Spatangus Lacunosus from Malta / A Conoidal Mammillated Echinite from Kent / Plate IV: Skeleton of the Megatherium / Skeleton of the Ichthosaurus / Molar Tooth of the Rhinocerous / Plate V: Common Baboon / Chimpanse (Chimpansee).…