Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom
S. G. Goodrich
Published by A. J. Johnson, New York, 1871
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THIS COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD+/NEAR FINE CONDITION IN 3/4 LEATHER WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RIBS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BRIGHT GILT END PAGES. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE NICE AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS EXCEPT FOR PREVIOUS OWNER INSCRIPTION TO FRONT END PAPER (SEE PHOTO), SOME LIGHT SPORADIC FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, LARGE SET 10.5"x8". 145 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL SET IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!. Seller Inventory # 407
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Title: Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, ...
Publisher: A. J. Johnson, New York
Publication Date: 1871
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom - Volume 1
Published by
W. B. Stickney, Ann Arbor, 1888
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Hardcover
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
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Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. This book has been bound with leather on spine and corners, imitation leather over boards. The outside covering of the book has wear and rubbing. The spine had torn and chipped at head and foot. Has been repaired. Leather has worn away at the hinges but the boards are still attached to the text. Corners quite worn with board showing. All edges gilt. End papers have minor spotting. Interior text is sold with all illustrations present. The engravings are quite impressive and well done. No markings of ownership or text interior. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 003404
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, & Popular, Illustrating & Describing the Animal Kingdom. (complete in 2 volumes)
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Ann Arbor: W. B. Stickney / New York: A. J. Johnson, 1889
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Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Two imperial octavos bound in brown half-leather & cloth. Numerous B&W illustrations. Condition: rear covers of both volumes show early water damage; leather spines are brittle & have large chips missing; hinges weak; internally, very good. Seller Inventory # 6465
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom
Published by
A. J. Johnson, 1874
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Hardcover
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
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Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Youmans, E. I; Seelye, J. H,; Tenney, Sanborn (illustrator). Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom with its Wonders and Curiosities, From Man, Through All the Divisions, Classes, And Orders, to the Animalcules in a Drop of Water; Showing The Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals, with Their Relations to Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce and the Arts. Brown cloth board, black leather spine and corners. Gilt bands, lettering on boards and spine. All edges gilt. Volume 2 lacking FFEP. Edges show some wear. Top edge of volume 1 spine is a little pulled. All edges gilt. Some foxing. Name and address in pencil on front endpaper of volume 1. Nearly 1550 engravings. Complete in two volumes. Seller Inventory # 061087
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom, with All Its Wonders and Curiosities. Complete in Two Volumes
Published by
W. Stickney, Ann Arbor, MI, 1885
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Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
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Half Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Imperial octavo. Pp.xv,682, plus 20pp. Pp. viii, 686, plus 16pp. From Man, through all the Divisions, Calsses, and Orders, to the Animalcul;es in a Drop of Water; Showing the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals, with their Relations to Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and the Art. Contains 1500 wood engravings. Thre supplements at the end of each volume are evaluations of the theory of evolution ("the development hypothesis") one pro, and one con. Notable for the number of illustrations, showing animals, birds, fishes, etc. Half-leather and pebbled boards. The binding is poor, with both front boards nearly off, and the spines off. Text block holding, and internally fine. Seller Inventory # 009163
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom, with its Wonders and Curiosities, from Man Through All the Divisions, Classes, and Orders, to the Animalculae in a Drop of Water; Showing the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals, with their Relations to Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and the Arts, Volume I.
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A. J. Johnson, Publisher, New York, 1871
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Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 680 pages, volume I only. Illustrated throughout, gilt titles and all edges, half leather bound. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf and small pen marking. Corner and spine edge wear and minor foxing on front preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 852976. Seller Inventory # 852976
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom, With Its Wonders and Curiosities, From Man, Through All the Divisions, Classes.[etc]
Published by
Johnson, 1872
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volumes. Half leather with black pebbled cloth boards with gilt lettering. Fading to spines, rubbing to leather edges. Light shelf wear. All edges gilt. Pages lightly tanned but clean, NO foxing or markings. Bindings sturdy. HEAVY shipping cost will reflect weight. Seller Inventory # mon0002789928
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom- Two Volumes
Published by
A. J. Johnson, New York, 1869
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Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
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Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. Two Volumes. Pp,: xvi, 681; viii, 682, Gilt titles, sp. and frt. bds. Frontis w/ tssue guard. Numerous b/w engravings, some full pg. and tables. Brown full pebble lea. bds. w/ gilding and tooled sp. Sp. ends curled and wear to lea. joints, both vols. P/o embossed in gilt, frt. bd., vo. i. A.e.g. Frt. bd. vol. i shaked. (worn joint). One cross panel partially raised from sp. vol. ii. Cors. bumped and scuffed. Usual handling wear. Interior leaves are sl. tanned, else clean and tight. Includes footnotes, appendices (both vols.) and index, vol. ii. An inclusive scientific survey of animal life on the planet circa the 1860's, quite definitive for its time and copiously illustrated. Extra postage applies. Seller Inventory # 004914
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom (2 Volume Set)
Published by
W.B. Stickney, 1989
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Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardback, dark maroon pebbled cloth, half leather, with gilt lettering on front, spine, and rear; gilt page edges; rubbing, use wear to leather; binding good, clean text with clean illustrations. Seller Inventory # 96711
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, illustrating and describing the Animal Kingdom, with its Wonders and Curiosities, in two volumes, complete
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New York: A.J. Johnson & Son, . Later printing., 1875
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Seller: Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
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Pp. xv, (i), 680, (2), 35 (appendix); pp. vii, 682, (1), 16, (7, ads); 1550 black-and-white engravings, mostly are figures in the text while some are full page figures. Publisher's one-half brown leather over dark brown pebble-cloth boards, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in two compartments and with elaborate gilt decorations in the other four compartments, front cover is ornately lettered in gilt and with gilt rules, all board edges are beveled, all page edges in rich gilt, thick sm 4to. The first edition of this work was published in 1872, this set was published in 1875. Each volume has an essay on evolution that appears at the end of the work: volume I has "An Exposition of the Development Hypothesis as Maintained by Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer and the New School of Naturalists" by Prof. Edward L. Youmans M.D., and volume 2 has "A Criticism of the Development Hypothesis as Held by Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer and the New School of Naturalists" by Rev. Julius H. Seelye. Both of these essays take an anti-Darwinian view. There are also 7 pages of reviews of the Goodrich set, by eminent professors and writers, at the end of volume 2. No ownership marks. Light edge wear to outer corners and bottom edge; a tight, bright and clean copy in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 7918
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular, Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom, with its Wonders and Curiosities ( Two Volumes)
Published by
A. J. Johnson, New York, 1874
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
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Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good +. Two Volumes in brown 3/4 leather and pebbled cloth with gilt decoration and gilt lettering on the spines. All edges gilt. Previous owner's names on front paste downs. Light rubbing at extremities. Bindings very tight and square. Volume I 680 +35 pp, Volume II 682 + 17 pp + 7 pages of Testimonials. A very clean and tight set. Heavy/oversize set may require additional postage. PayPal accepted. Seller Inventory # 004099
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