219 Naturalist's Library. Edited by Sir William Jardine. Illustrated with several hundred copper-plates, finely colored by hand. 42 vols. 12mo. New ¾ polished green calf extra, full gilt backs with red levant labels, gilt tops, uncut. London, n. d. $140.00
Contains: Birds, 14 vols.; Insects, 7 vols.; Fishes, 6 vols.; Animals, 13 vols.; Humming Birds, 1 vol.; Natural History of Man, 1 vol.
The most complete and accurate work on the subject. The numerous plates are colored truly to nature by experts. The many finely engraved portraits also add to its value. An exceptionally fine set in an appropriate binding.
220 Napoleon. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By De Bourrienne. Edited by R. W. Phipps. New and Revised Edition. With numerous illustrations. 4 vols. Post 8vo. new half crimson levant morocco, gilt tooled backs with green levant inlays, gilt tops. New York, 1895. $15.00
An exceptionally fine set.
221 Naples Museum, Specimen from. 165 plates engraved on copper by the best Italian artists, illustrating 500 objects from every branch of Art and Archaeology. By Domenico Monaco. With descriptive letterpress, carefully revised and amplified from the best authorities, and an historical and descriptive sketch of Pompeii and Herculaneum. By E. Neville Rolfe. 4to. cloth. Naples, 1895. $10.00
The present edition has been remodelled, the old plates have been carefully touched up, and several new plates representing Greek vases have been added.
222 New York City. Francis (John W.). Old New York; or, Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years. Being an Enlarged and Revised Edition of the Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Historical Society (Nov. 17, 1857). $5.00
An old history of New York City dating back to 1798. Scarce.