[Canids] Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes. A monograph on the canidae

By St. George Mivart. With woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans and hand-coloured. London, printed by Taylor and Francis for R.H. Porter and Dulau & Co., 1890, (8),XXXVI,216 p., with 45 handcoloured, lithographed plates and 59 woodcut illustrations, original gilt-lettered brown cloth, top edge gilt, 4to.

Title page and last page sl. foxed due to the binding; several plates loose. Hinges fragile. Good copy with bookplate of Edward Brown Lees (1843-1896) and his wife Dorothy Livesey to inside of front board. Below a small, slightly later ticket of Van Stockum's Antiquariaat (J.B.L. Kerling) of The Hague. Nissen, ZBI 2845. The rare first edition of this splendidly illustrated standard work on canids by George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900).