Extinct Animals by Lankester E Ray (13 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1905. wants front end paper, frontisp. foxed,else good in original cloth.

xxiii, 331 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth. Second impression. Large ownership signature on front free endpaper and half-title and several other places; ink underscoring on one page; small abraded area on pastedown; binding rubbed at extremities, but tight and sound.

Condition: Good. None. 331 pages, 218 b&w illustrations. Decorated maroon covers with gilt mastodon head and lettering on front. Hinges cracked. Naturalist author Ronald Rood's copy with his signature on front fly leaf. Covers a little worn, internally very good. Record # 403195.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Royal 8vo, first edition,pp,xxiii,331, with 218 illustrations, brown cloth titled in gilt to the spine and upper cover, gilt animal blocking to the upper cover, bevelled edges to the covers, uncut, 30pp publisher's list to the rear, some mild foxing to the prelims, a bit shaken.…

Many b&w illustrations & line drawings. Original burgundy cloth gilt (attractive cover design). Spine just a touch faded. Generally VG+. No dustwrapper.

Archibald Constable London 1905. First edition. Gilt illustrated red cloth, portrait frontis, illustrations, photographs, 331pp + publ catalogue. Gift inscription, spine a little rolled o/w good. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

xxiii, 331 pp. With 218 illustrations. 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth. Second impression. Blind-embossed name at head of title page; a few light spots to the first few pages; minor use to cloth at extremities. Tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Rare copy in this lovely clen condition. Once part of a private library, hardly read and in super condition. The spine is strong and the gold leaf embossed cover boards have retained their colour. A superb example.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Well read copy with some wear, markings and discolouring to spine, book covers and page edges due to age. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. xxiii + [i] + 331 + [1] pp. + [30 + [2] pp. publisher's list. . Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board. Bevelled edges Some pages uncut. Boards are water stained and occasional traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by photographic portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, protected by tissue guard and by 218 text figures, including maps. The subjects of chapters include recent extinctions, early man, elephants, horses, giant sloth and kangaroos. Two final chapters are concerned with dinosaurs and marine reptiles, and fishes, trilobites, etc. Edwin Ray Lankester (1837-1939), palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, was a professor at University College, London, 1874-90 and at Oxford, 1891-98. From 1898-1907 he served as Director of the Natural History Museum. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE FOSSILS NATURAL HISTORY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE. …

With 218 Illustrations.Archibald Constable & C°, London, 1905, in-8, rel. éd., , XXIII - 331 p., portrait en front., qqs. rouss. p. de garde et p. de titre, intérieur propre. E.O. Bon ex.