1851-55 THE NATURALIST - Animal Vegetable Mineral Kingdom, Illust & Color Plates

Description: This is a scarce collection of the first five volumes of the publication "THE NATURALIST - A Popular Monthly Magazine Illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms" conducted by Beverley R. Morris. The volumes span the years 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1855, and were published by Groombridge and Sons in London. The volumes are illustrated as follows: 1851 - color plate frontispiece, numerous in-text illustrations; 1852 - 3 color plates, numerous in-text illustrations; 1853 - numerous in-text illustrations; 1854 - a few in-text illustrations; 1855 - 2 black & white plates. Each volume has an Index at the back. Here are some examples of the contents: On the Power That Certain Water-Birds Possess of Remaining Partially Submerged in Deep Water; The Swamps of the Mississippi; The Myrtle Bee; The Common Wasp; The Redbreast; Habit of the Ring-Dove Wood Pigeon; On the Habits of the Common Mouse; The Robin; Instinct of Animals; Peculiarity in the Femur of a Fox; Notes on the Dodo; A Walk on the Shore; On the Moor-Hen; Singular Breeding Place of the Rabbit; The Cuckoo Feeding its Own Young; Eyes of the Mole; New Species of Mollusca; Foreign Bodies in Eggs; Predatory Habits of the Rook; Remarks on the Attacking of Pupae by Ichneumon Flies; The Nest of the Kingfisher; Letters of an Ornithologist; The Propagation of Hardy Trees and Shrubs; The Late Frost; Stray Notes on the Elm; The Salmon Manufactury on the Tay; A Few Notes on the Nesting of Birds; The Grey Heron; Nature and Harmony; The Common Gull; A Spring Ramble...and much more.

Price: 225 USD

Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire

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