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Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833

 

Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Binding

 Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Marbled Endpapers Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Title.

  

Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Text.

 

 Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Plate Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. Robert Knox. 1833. Associated Ephemera.
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Knox, Robert. Observations on the Natural History of the Salmon, Herring, and Vendace. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol XII. (Read 7th and 21st January 1833) Edinburgh Neill and Company. 1833. 1st Edition. 4to, 210mm x 270mm. Half calf on contemporary boards, recent re-back and morocco gilt label to front. Contemporary marble endpapers. Pp60, I plate. Page edges age tone and light damp stain to lower front blank margin of first few pages. Manuscript inscription on title page "Captain Fergusson/ Royal Marines/ With the authors compliments." Knox practiced and taught Surgery in Edinbugh and became involved in the Burke and Hare scandal, which was to become his downfall in the field of medicine and he went onto take a greater interest in Natural History and the Salmon in particular. While teaching, one of those he worked with was William Fergusson, who went on to become President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Surgeon to Queen Victoria and a Baronet. William Fersusson's uncle was General William Fergusson to whom this book is inscribed. With loose a letter of 1961 from a descendant of the Fergussons gifting the book to another relative together with a newspaper photograph of 1939 of a House once the residence of another Fergusson. A scarce work of good provenance and in very good condition; from a notable figure in the vibrant times in Edinburgh Academia to which Charles Darwin and J J Audubon were to contribute.
Cat. No. 93001                  £600

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