Product Description
Milner, Thomas; The Gallery of Nature; or Wonders of the Earth and Heavens…..Condensed and Revised by Caleb Wright…embellished with Thirty-two full-page illustrations. In two vols. Second American Edition. Boston, 1857. Quarto, vol. 1, pp. 416. Vol. 2, pp. 417-832, total of 41 text and full page engravings in the two vols.
The set is complete and in the original decorative stamped brown cloth with gilt spine titles. The bindings are tight and clean with minor soiling to covers, text and illustrations are clean and bright, free of any stamps or notations. In very good condition.
The author provides a beautifully illustrated pictorial tour of the Earth and heavens focused on astronomy, physical geography and geology.