Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology
Subtitle: Second series : with a continuation of the autobiography of the author
By: by Charles Waterton
Contributors: Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer; Creswick, Thomas, 1811-1869, ill; McElhone, John J., former owner
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Natural history; Birds
Other titles: Waterton's Essays on natural history, second series; Essays on natural history, [2nd series]
Notes: First edition; a 2nd ed. was published later in the same year.

"London: printed by A. Spottiswoode"--Verso of t.p.

Frontispiece signed: T. Creswick.

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SCNHRB copy 39088011237237 has autograph of a former owner on front paste-down endpaper: J.J. McElhone; embossed stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; ink stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Libraries Nov. 15, 1993; bookseller's printed label on front paste-down endpaper: Godwin, bookseller, Bath.

SCNHRB copy has 32 p. of publisher's advertisements, dated June 1, 1844, bound in at end of volume.

SCNHRB copy has the publisher's blind-stamped purple embossed cloth binding with a gilt-lettered spine label; the spine has been repaired with brown book tape.