The Entertaining Naturalist
The Entertaining Naturalist
Being Popular Descriptions, Tales and Anecdotes
Of more than
Five Hundred Animals
Published by Henry G. Bohn, Covent Garden 1840
£100
Small 8v0., (195x120x40mm.), original embossed green cloth, sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down, over 350 illustrations in the text of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, small rectangle of paper cut from frontispiece, not affecting image, very good.
An explanation of terms used in natural history is included, e.g. Cinereous – of the colour of ashes; Frugivorous – feeding on seeds; Predaceous – formed to pursue prey.
There is an appendix on ‘Fabulous Animals’ including the Dragon, the Mermaid, the Gryphon, the Unicorn with their French and Latin names.