Second edition. Hand-coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, portrait of the author, six other full-page plates, double-page map, numerous in-text illustrations. 8vo. Blindstamped cloth with gilt title to spine, sunned. Upper inner joint split, but holding on cords. Former owner’s signatures to ffep. xx, 590pp. London, published for the author by J. Snow, 1838.
Sir David Attenborough’s copy with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.