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FUNKE, C[arl] P[hilipp] : Vorbereitung Zur Naturgeschichte. Mit Seche und Zwanzig Kupserafeln

Voss. Berlin. 1804

First edition. German text. Contains two sets of the same 26 folding copper plates with the engraving on the fold-out part so the text and illustrations can be enjoyed together, one of each of the plates is delicately hand-coloured, the following twin to it is not. viii, 198pp. followed by the plates. Small thick 8vo. Attractive blue publisher's cloth gilt spine, marbled boards, also attractive, extremities worn and rubbed, contents sl. shaken but sound. Some occasional foxing and browning o/w contents remarkably clean and sound.

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