[v]-xiv, [2], [17]-336 pp. With steel-engraved frontispiece portrait (of natualist Francois Peron, added engraved title, & 31 steel-engraved plates, most hand-colored, bound in following the text. 6½x4, period half morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges.

Issued as Vol. VIII in the Mammalia portion of Jardine's Naturalist Library. With a memoir of naturalist Francois Peron, noted for his investigations in Australia in the early 19th century.