Peter Mark Roget — Animal and Vegetable Physiology

London, William Pickering, 1834 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Mark Roget's impressive and charmingly illustrated introductory guide to the physiology of vegetables and animals, complete in two volumes. The first edition of this work from British physician, natural theologian, and lexicographer Peter Mark Roget, complete in two volumes.It is believed that only 1,000 copies of this first edition were produced.With vignette illustrations throughout.Roget's study of animal and vegetable physiology is the fifth entry in the Bridgewater Treatises "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation", a distinguished series of works on natural theology commissioned by the Royal Society in the mid-19th century. With the armorial bookplate of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse, a Scottish advocate, judge and satirist, to the front pastedowns. In full calf bindings, with gilt detailing to back strips. Joints starting, with volume I boards tenderly held, and volume II boards holding firm. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .