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ed. hardback good condition in cloth with wear and bumping - no dust jacket.
Published by J. B. Lippincott Co
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Uncredited (illustrator). Fair early reprint with gilt edged pages and decorative green cloth, no dustjacket. Circa 1890. General wear.
Published by Parry and McMillan, 1856
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Splitting to hinges but binding is intact. Rubbing at edges. Pages clean, textblock sturdy.
Published by Duane Rulison, 1860
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown tooled cloth boards, faded at spine, general shelf/age wear. Foxing throughout, still readable. Binding sturdy.
Published by Quaker City, 1874
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. nice front board worn at spine but all there many illustrations fair to good but solid and tight.
Published by J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1890
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Boards (HB) in decorative cover.The cover has fades some but the spine has not. In very good condition The inside hinge is open but the book is holding strong and other than a few spots it is in very good condition for a 128 year old book. Information and illustrations about the sea when we knew even less about it than we do now. 384 pages with full page illustrations for other books inside covers.
Published by Quaker City, 1874
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. with accounts of Submarine Exploration, diving, Telegraphing book is well worn and cracking and some damage at spine but all there amazing plates throughout.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. frontis, illustrations, xii, 360. Old green 1/2 leather and marbled boards. 19 cm. Extremities rubbed. Leather portions of cover rather scuffed. Title label on backstrip chipped. Endpapers and adjacent leaves have quite a bit of foxing; little, if any, foxing elsewhere.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. frontis, illustrations, xii, 360. Original brown cloth. 19cm. Modest chipping at ends of backstrip. Extremities rubbed (some loss of cloth). Sunday School Reward of Merit inscition on front pastedown.
N/A. Condition: N/A. 1 St. 1854, nice copy in orig. cloth, hiht of wear to spine.
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1854
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rebound in dark brown cloth with gilt title to spine, taken from original binding. Blue-green decorated endpapers. 4 full page b/w plates, including frontispiece, plus in-text illustrations throughout. Condition: Very good book in near fine replacement binding. small loss to edge of frontispiece. All plates present. Pages and plates clear. Size: 8x5in / 20x13cm. 360pp. Weight: 505g.
Published by Duane Rulison, Philadelphia, 1860
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. SD. NAP. 378 pages, plus 8 pages ads. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library call letters painted in box on spine. Some wear, short tears at spine extremities; wear at tips of corners. Spine a bit sun-lightend; gilt spine lettering somwhat faded, but still readable. Else binding fairly clean. Bit of soil to endpapers. Page edges darkened; pages just a bit age-toned. ; B&W Illustrations; NHH12A; Ex-Library.
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. [c. 1880s], London, 1880
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. xii, 360, 4-ads, frontis, engravings to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. red cloth, with pictorial sea-bottom scene to lower two-thirds of front board, carried round to spine; SPCK in brown device to rear board; gilt title to front board (with decorative initial letters) and spine; patterned endpapers. Cloth rubbed, with minor wear, nick to head of spine; corners and fore-edge of front board bumped. Inner hinges cracked but firm. Good. One of the most successful of Gosse's popular books. Undated reissue (first published 1845).Closest to Freeman & Wertheimer 21, but with some differences to binding.
Published by Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1845
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition
xii, 360pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 51 engraved illustrations. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate to FEP, frontispiece a trifle creased, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a succinct study, intended for a juvenile readership, of the wonders of the world's oceans. The author, zoologist Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), was highly influential in popularising natural science and marine biology. He is famed for establishing the first public aquarium (and indeed coining the term), triggering a craze for such exhibits to sweep through Victorian society. Size: 8vo.
Published by SPCK: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Wear to boards. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by SPCK. London First edition 3rd. issue, 1849
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
pp. xii, 360. Frontispiece, 55 text engravings. Original red cloth, blind decorated borders on each board, trifling wear to the spine ends, RICHARD FREEMAN's copy, in very good condition. *STAGEMAN #3 -:- FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER #9a -:- FREEMAN British Natural History books #1352.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xii, 360. Original publisher's blue textured cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Armorial bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) on the front pastedown - he was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. He closely studied the fauna and flora of Central America and had several plants name after him, He corresponded with other scientists of his time including Charles Darwin and lived at South Lodge, Lower Beeding, Sussex. Highly attractive illustrations, including seals, whales, Aurora Borealis, volcanoes, penguins. Very good indeed. Excellent condition.