Animate Creation, 6 volumes, lavishly illustrated

Updated September 24, 2026

WOOD, J.G., and JOSEPH B. HOLDER. Animate Creation; Popular Edition of "Our Living World," A Natural History ... Revised and Adapted to American Zoology. New York: Selmar Hess, 1898. Small folio (230 x 317 mm). With 34 chromolithographed plates by Louis Prang, 68 full-page duo-tone plates, and hundreds of illustrations in text. Title page vol 1 printed in red and black. Publisher's 3/4 morocco lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, red-stained edges. Condition Bindings rubbed in places but a clean, solidly bound copy.

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