1869 viii, 683 p., numerous illustrations, publisher’s decorated dark green cloth (front cover with gilt head of an eagle, spine with two birds). A 3.5 cm piece of the spine (along joint) has been eaten by a unscrupulous rodent taking with it the lower half of the letter T (of Naturalist) with him, the hole has been repaired with matching green cloth. A few small repaired tears in endpapers else a good copy of this early North American nature journal.