Red cloth binding with gilt title and tree design on the spine and front board. All edges gilt

F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feel and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

A rare book worthy of any collection

564, colour frontis, 270 wood engravings INCLUDING SOME FULL PAGE

Includes chapters on “The Animal Kingdom / The Coral and its Builders / Insects: Marvels of Insect Organisation / Slave-makers and Warlike Tribes (Talking about Insects!) / The Architecture of Birds / The Migrations of Animals / The Vegetable Kingdom / The Seed and Germination / Fossils / The Mountains – Cataclysms and Upheavals of the Globe / Caverns and Grottoes / Volcanoes and Earthquakes / Glaciers and Eternal Snows / The Sidereal Universe / The Stars and Immensity / The
Nebulae / The Solar World / Popular Errors on "Monsters and Superstitions”.