Animate Creation: Popular Edition of "Our Living World." Volume IV [Birds]

New York: Selmar Hess, 1885. Leather bound. Very good minus. Odd volume. 287-632pp. Quarto [32 cm] 3/4 red leather with marbled paper over boards, and a gilt tooled spine. A personalized gift inscription, from " Grandmother Adams, "dated "Christmas, 1888," has been stamped in gilt on a red leather label mounted to the front board. Red text block edges. Marbled endpapers. There is no title page information in this volume. The front board is partially detached, and the extremities are rubbed and a bit mottled. The rear board has multiple areas of abrasion. With 5 full-color plates. John George Wood helped to popularize natural history.