[Animated Nature] History of Man and Quadrupeds with Numerous Original Notes... in Two Volumes; History of British & Foreign Birds; History of Fishes, Reptiles... [4 vols]

74 hand-coloured plates (and a further two, of the skeleton, not coloured), each volume with extra-illustrated title page with hand-coloured vignette, pp. [iv], xxviii, 344, [14 plate leaves]; [iv], iv, 356, [16 plate leaves]; [ii], vi, 400, [24 plate leaves]; [ii], vi, 485, [22 plate leaves], 12mo, contemporary quarter black morocco, straight-grained purple cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands and gilt panels, top edge gilt, pastedowns with ownership amorial stamp of W.C. Maxwell, boards with a few marks and areas of cloth puckering, text block fore-edges with a few spots, very good