Folio (550 x 424 mm). Pictorial title-page with hand-coloring, 117 engraved plates with hand-coloring. (Very light marginal toning.) Contemporary deluxe? half green morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-titling in second, others gilt-tooled, top edge (front joint splitting but hinge reinforced, extremities rubbed, few stains to covers).

A RARE OVERSIZE FORMAT, unrecorded by the major bibliographies. The work is divided into four divisions: Mammalia (comprising 39 plates), Ornithology (comprising 42 plates), Icthyology (comprising 18 plates), and Entomology (comprising 18 plates). See previous lot for Jardine's Naturalist Library where these illustrations appear in their octavo format.