First edition. Full original calf, spine with raised bands and gold tooling; rebacked with original spine relaid and retaining original boards; hand-coloured frontispiece and twelve other plates in two states - both hand-coloured and in black and white. 8vo., pp. 496. Light water-staining to first few pages and pp. 447 - 450, otherwise a very good copy, attractively illustrated. George Samouelle was an associate of the Linnaen Society of London and a Curator of Natural History at the British Museum with the above-mentioned Dr Leach.