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Les Mystères de l'Océan by MANGIN Arthur - 1868

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Les Mystères de l'Océan by MANGIN Arthur - 1868

Les Mystères de l'Océan

by MANGIN Arthur

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Alfred Mame, Tours, 1868. Large 8vo (250x157mm), pp. (6), 494pgs Red leather and rich gilt ornamented panels on spine. All edges gilt, Numerous in-text and plate illustrations by W. Freeman and Jules Noël depicting scenes of oceanic life and marine animal life. Third Edition of this handsome volume by Mangin (1824-1887). The work deals with the mythical history and myths of the ocean, its main phenomena (tides, currents, climatic variations, storms, marshes, etc.), marine fauna and flora (fish, fossils, crustaceans, shellfish, shells , Octopus, sea serpents, cetaceans, seals, sea birds, etc.), the relationship between man and the sea (sailing, fishing, hunting for cetaceans and amphibians, ocean diving etc.) .
There's a previous owner's bookplate and a stamp at the front. Otherwise a nice, clean edition.
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  • Publisher Alfred Mame et Fils
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  • Date Published 1868
  • Keywords antique, book, Ocean, sea, nautical, engravings, whales, tides, exploration, biology, marine, life
North-west European Shelf Seas; both volumes
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North-West European Shelf Seas: the Sea Bed and the Sea in Motion Both Volumes 24a and 24b
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island

The Adventure of Wrangel Island

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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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Flack, Marjorie. Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog. Copyright 1934, Doubleday & Company, Inc., First Edition. For Young Readers. Used. Good Condition/ Good- condition rare, unclipped $2.50 original dust jacket. . Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A. Beautifully illustrated. Please see our photos. The Story: "Tim Tadpole lived in a small pond at the edge of the wood. All around him the Peeper frogs sang, while the Great Bullfrog croaked and jumped. But Tim couldn't sing and he couldn't jump either. All he could do was to wriggle through the water until the day he made an exciting discovery!" RARE! We consider offers.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands,...
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France

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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More
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North-west European Shelf Seas; both volumes
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North-West European Shelf Seas: the Sea Bed and the Sea in Motion Both Volumes 24a and 24b
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island

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Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands,...
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More
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Les deserts torrides et les deserts glaces/mangin /1881

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Alfred mame et Fils, 1881. 213 pp. including plates, frontis., hardcover, rebound in marble boards, library markings else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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The Mysteries of the Ocean. Translated, Edited, and Enlarged from the French of Arthur Mangin, by the Translator of ""The Bird."" With 130 Illustrations by W. Freeman and J. Noel.

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1868. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Green cloth cover with gilt decoration over beveled boards, cover shows heavy wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, holing and erosion. Pages are shaken and tanned, show minor soiling and foxing.
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Soirées en famille par A. M. Mangin

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Les déserts torrides et les déserts glacés.

Les déserts torrides et les déserts glacés.

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Les déserts torrides et les déserts glacés - illustrations par d'Argent...

Les déserts torrides et les déserts glacés - illustrations par d'Argent Foulquier et Freeman

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Merveilles de l'industrie : Machines ˆ vapeur - Bateaux ˆ vapeur - Chemins de fer.

Merveilles de l'industrie : Machines ˆ vapeur - Bateaux ˆ vapeur - Chemins de fer.

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Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1875. Un vol. au format in-8 (221 x 138 mm) de 1 f. bl., 1 frontispice n.fol., 240 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure de l'Žpoque de demi-chagrin maroquinŽ cerise, filets gras et maigres ˆ froid encadrant les plats, dos ˆ nerfs ornŽ de filets gras ˆ froid, doubles filets d'encadrement dorŽs, large dŽcor fleuronnŽ dorŽ, titre dorŽ, filets dorŽs en tte et queue, tranches mouchetŽes., 1875. L'ouvrage - agrŽablement reliŽ - s'ouvre sur un frontispice gravŽ. Quelques t‰ches au premier plat. Le second prŽsente une marque plus prononcŽe. InŽgales rousseurs dans le texte. Du reste, bonne condition.
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The Desert World
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The Desert World

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Merveilles de l'Industrie. Machines à vapeur - Bateaux à vapeur - Chemins de Fer.
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The Desert World or the scenery, animal and vegetable life, and physical character of the wildernesses and waste places of the earth (nelson's Art Gift-Books)

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Voyages et Decouvertes outre-mer au XIXe siecle ... Illustrations par Durand-Brager. (French...
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Voyages et Decouvertes outre-mer au XIXe siecle ... Illustrations par Durand-Brager. (French Edition)

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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

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THE PERFECT STORM: A TRUE STORY OF MEN AGAINST THE SEA

THE PERFECT STORM: A TRUE STORY OF MEN AGAINST THE SEA

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Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks At Cancer and the Environment

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In a gripping personal narrative, she brings to life stories of communities in her hometown and around the country as they confront decades of industrial and agricultural recklessness.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Half Mile Down
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Half Mile Down

by William Beebe

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1934 Harcourt Brace stated first edition.
Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is a bit of cloth loss at the bottom edge of the book's spine.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good Minus. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows moderate wear to the edges and folds. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.
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The Sea Hunters: The New England Whalemen During Two Centuries 1635-1835
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The Sea Hunters: The New England Whalemen During Two Centuries 1635-1835

by Stackpole, Edouard A

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Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co.,1953, hardcover, 510 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, top edge dusted, fading to board edges, small spot of soiling to rear board. Dustjacket price-clipped, rubs, small edge chips, short closed edge tears, fade to spine, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. The first detailed history of American whaling for the period 1635-1835 including, a full account of the whaling industry from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812, the first detailed study of the migrations of the whalemen after the Revolution to ports not closed to them by the British, the story of the beginnings of Cape Horn whaling, and the first recognition-with authentication-of the actual discoverer of Antarctica, Christopher Burdick. Illustrated with 8 black-&-white plates. Appended: Notes, Index.
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North-west European Shelf Seas; both volumes
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North-west European Shelf Seas; both volumes

by Banner

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9780444417404
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North-West European Shelf Seas: the Sea Bed and the Sea in Motion Both Volumes 24a and 24b
by Banner, F. T., And Collins, M. B., And Massie, K. S. Hard cover. Elsevier Scientific, Amsterdam (1980) No dust jacket as issued. Both volumes are almost like new except for the external bumps and rubs you can see on the scans. Bright blue boards with bright white titling Errata slip. Bright and clean throughout. Maps/chasrts galore. Elsevier oceanography series; 24.. Volume 1 (24A) ISBN 0444417346 is entitled " Geology and Sedimentology". Volume II (24B) ISBN 0444416234 is entitled "Physical and Chemical Oceanography, and Physical Resources". They are offered together as a set. ISBN 04444177400. I can offer them separately if requested. The book seems to be almost impossible to find in this great condition. Shipping to USA or Canada $17. Much more if going outside N. America
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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the...
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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini

by Agassiz, Alexander

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Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1904. First edition. 2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 – 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying… Read More
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