Travel & Natural History

Planché, J. R. Lays and Legends of the Rhine. London: Goulding & Almaine, [1827]. Small folio, 18 hand-colored lithographed views including title; a few leaves coming loose, some spotting, caption titles in pencil, later quarter-cloth and marbled boards. — Taylor, Bayard, ed. Picturesque Europe: a Delineation by Pen and Pencil. New York: Appleton, [1875]. 3 volumes, 4to, numerous steel-engraved plates and text illustrations, publisher's red leather gilt, top edge gilt. — Humbert, Aimé. Le Japon Illustré. Paris: Hachette, 1870. 2 volumes, folio, numerous engraved maps, plates and text illustrations, title printed in red and black, later red morocco gilt, spine and edges gilt. — Boitard, Pierre. Le Jardin des Plantes Description et Moeurs des Mammifères de la Menagerie et du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris: Dubochet & Cie., 1842. 8vo, portrait frontispiece, hand-colored engraved text illustrations. Publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. — W.B. Tegetmeier. Pigeons: their Structure, Varieties, Habits, and Management. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1868. 8vo, 16 hand-colored engraved plates, publisher's blue gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, edges gilt; extremities rubbed. — Bryant, William Cullen, ed. Picturesque America; or, the Land We Live In. New York: Appleton & Company, [1872-1874]. Parts 16 - 48 only comprising part of vol. 1 and all of vol. 2, steel-engraved plates, in original publisher's wrappers as issued. — plus 10 others in 13 volumes, in all, 23 volumes.

occasional rubbing of extremities, some light spotting in a few volumes, generally very good condition.
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