Search Results: tenby a sea side holiday by philip henry gosse

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

John Van Voorst, 1856-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear, pages show minor scattered foxing.

John Van Voorst. Used - Good. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards (faded to brown on spine and edges). Gilt lettering on spine (some loss to cloth on spine). Contains 23 illustrated and coloured plates showing biological illustrations. Textblock is generally clean throughout.

London: Paternoster Row.: John Van Voorst, 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GOSSE PH. BROOKS Vincent. Near Fine, First edition, 1856, 24 part coloured plates. In modern half blue calf over blue cloth. Spine, attractive gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xviii), [2] pl list, [1], 2-400 pp, [8] adverts, [4] publishers adverts, 24 pls (part coloured), occasional light spot, t.e.g., modern endpapers, bookseller label to fpd. A lovely example. (191*124 mm). (Anderson 353. Stageman 25). There was another issue later without the plates.

John van Voorst, London, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, olive green cloth. Vg condition. One faint old institutional stamp on title page. Original binding, spine ends lightly chipped, corners slightly bumped. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 398 pp., 24 chromolithographs, collated, all present

John Van Voorst. London. 1856.. pp. xviii, (i) List of Plates, (i) blank, 400. Issue without the plates. Original green cloth, joints weak especially the front, strip cut from front free end-paper and half-title [to remove signature?], spine ends a trifle rubbed and nicked, book-plate of the REV. RICHARD J. LIVINGSTONE and the bookseller's label of J. E. ARNETT, Tenby, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, bibliographer of Gosse and Darwin, with his acceptance note to the letter quoting this book to him in 1974 [@ £3 post paid!]. *STAGEMAN #25 [with plates] -:- FREEMAN AND WERTHEIMER #68 [... there is a very late form of it, which we have treated as an issue, in which the twenty-four plates are absent altogether. We know of no explanation of this, but the book in this form is not uncommon. 1500 copies were printed at a cost of £215.] -:- FREEMAN British Natural History Books #1385 [for the issue with plates].

London, John Van Voorst, 1856, First edition. . original blind stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, endpaper signature, minor foxing on a few leaves, else a fine clean copy. . 8vo [20 x 13 cm]; xviii, 400, [i], i], 8, [iv],16 [ads, some of author's other books] pp, 24 lithographed plates including 20 colored, frontis. . Gosse was the most important marine biologist of the nineteenth century, the father of sea-side studies and of the aquarium, and a true field naturalist. Some of the ads at the rear of the book are 'Practical Instructions of Tank Management and a list of descriptions, illustrations and prices of whatever relates to Aquaria' in keeping with the aquarium craze at the time which was in a large part encouraged by Gosse's book on aquariums and his others on marine biology. This book is based on a family holiday on the Welsh side of the Bristol Channel in 1854. Freeman & Wertheimer 67. Superb illustrations, many on… Read More