With plates including manatees and monkeys

ALSTON, EDWARD R.

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mammalia. [London: Taylor & Francis] 1879-1882. First edition. Early cloth. 12 x 9 1.2 inches (26 x 31 cm); 11 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. Smit, 7 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. G. Keulemans, 2 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. Wolf, one plain plate by J. Smit, and one plain plate by C. Berjeau (22 overall), xx + 220 pp. Lightly toned but fine within, some rubbing to the cloth.

A fine work on the mammals of Central America, the plates with fully colored backgrounds.
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