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Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. New Impression. 411 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough-cut pages. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Strange Dwellings : Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by Rev. J.G. Wood: - 1894
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London: Longmas, Green and Co. Ltd., 1894. A New Edition ( First Thus ). An abridgement of "Homes without Hands". Many engravings of unusual animal habitations by WF Keyl, JB Zwecker, and E Smith. maroon burlap, slightly faded to spine; owner's prize certificate on front pastedown. . Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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- Date Published 1894
- Keywords NATURAL HISTORY, ANIMALS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS,
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Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals Abridged from 'Homes Without Hands'
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Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of Habitations of Animals; Abridged from 'Homes Without Hands'
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London: Longmans, Green & Co (The Silver Library) 1899 New Impression cr.8vo xi,411,40pp ill., 1899 NVG original burgundy cloth, gilt titles, moderate shelf wear, covers slightly flecked, slight lean, presentation bookplate inside front cover, a little light foxing to prelims, numerous woodcut illustrations.
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. Popularizing the Study of Natural History WOOD, Rev. J.G. Strange Dwellings being a description of the habitations of animals abridged from 'Homes without hands'... with designs by W.F. Keyl, J.B. Zwecker, and E. Smith. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. First edition thus. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches: 183 x 121 mm.). xii, 411, [1] pp. Woodcut frontispiece, vignette title-page and over fifty wood engravings in the text. Bound by Rivingtons (stamp-signed on front blank) in contemporary full blue calf, covers with double gilt rules, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Homes without hands first appeared in 1865. The Rev. J.G. Wood's "single object throughout [his career was] to popularize the study of natural history by rendering it interesting and intelligible to non-scientific minds. In this he was thoroughly…
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