Lot 08062

Four (4) chapbooks printed in Dublin c.1820. All 24mo. size and bound in contemporary calf, with woodcut frontispieces and illustrations, many full-page. Rather chipped spines and boards, a few insect’s marks, bumped corners; three of them are tight, one with looser binding (front cover partly displaced). Very interesting and Good copies overall. Titles:

·         “The NATURAL HISTORY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS; containing an account of their Habits and Instincts, and of the Services they render to Man”, Dublin: Printed by C. Bentham, 1820, p. 178.

·         “HISTORY OF WONDERFUL FISHES”, Dublin: Printed by C. Bentham, 1820, p. 181.

·         “TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA” Dublin: Printed by C. Bentham, 1822, p. 184.

·         “The NATURAL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE BIRDS, with their Habbits and Instincts”, Dublin: Printed by William Epsy, 1821, p. 171+[1]