Dr. Goldsmith's Natural History of Animals

Viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents and Insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. London, T. Pridden and William Coke, Leith, 1790 [with a second title] A description of above three hundred Animals (...). Edinburgh, W. Coke, Leith, 1792.

Small 8vo, leather, ill. frontispiece, 2x title, 4,(4),207 pp., complete with 98 plates with 300 images in full-page copper engraving and a folding plate of Greenland Whale Fishery (minor tears); inside boards reinforced with tape, trifle browned, mild staining. Ms. owner's name in ink. Used copy of this extremely scarce children's book.