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TOPSELL, Edward (compiler, d.?1638). The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes ... Collected out of the all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. London: William Jaggard, 1607.
2° (308 x 205mm.) Wood-cut title vignette of a 'sea-wolfe', numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page. (Lacking first and last ?blanks, K2, Bb3, Qq1 and Eee3 shaved with loss to the woodcut illustration, large neatly repaired tear to Vv6, some other smaller repairs, some old soiling to title and first few leaves.) 20th-century brown morocco, titled in gilt on spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Io: Grahame (early signature on title).
FIRST EDITION, with bookseller's note at front 'unique, with sea-wolf engraving on title, [instead of 'Gorgon']'. Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323; Wood p.599.
2° (308 x 205mm.) Wood-cut title vignette of a 'sea-wolfe', numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page. (Lacking first and last ?blanks, K2, Bb3, Qq1 and Eee3 shaved with loss to the woodcut illustration, large neatly repaired tear to Vv6, some other smaller repairs, some old soiling to title and first few leaves.) 20th-century brown morocco, titled in gilt on spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Io: Grahame (early signature on title).
FIRST EDITION, with bookseller's note at front 'unique, with sea-wolf engraving on title, [instead of 'Gorgon']'. Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323; Wood p.599.
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