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Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 392 pp. Vol VII only. Very good- in cloth backed boards with paper spine label. Rubbing to board extremities, joints. Endpapers foxed with two PO signatures. Pages themselves generally bright and unmarked, may show some foxing spots.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: E. C. & J. Biddle, 1850. 1850, 387pp, illus., v. 7 only, some shelfwear to cover, leather peeling at edges, top 1" of spine missing, tear at bottom os spine, light fixing, contents clean & unmarked.. Full-Leather. Good +/No Jacket.

Hardback. New.

Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1850. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Uniform Edit.. orig.brown, blind-stamped cloth, gilt dec. spine,pp., 387 pages illustrated, frontis., illustrations in text, index, ex private library with small bookplate inside front cover, light wear to spine ends, light spine fade, moisture marks on top edges throughout text. Size: 8 Vo.,.

Paperback / softback. New.

E.C. & J. Biddle, 1851. Hardcover. Good. Drawings. Tight and surprisingly clean if a bit musty. Wear to exterior, corners bumped. Foxing throughout. Original booksellers stamp on back board. Former owner wrote on front board. This is a book about astronomy and earth science.

New.

Hardback. New.

New York: Worthington Co, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. grey publisher's cloth, blue stamped decorations. 384 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine soiled, ends bumped, corners worn.

West Brookfield, Massachusetts: Merriam and Cooke, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Contemporary full sheep with black leather spine label gilt. Wear to the edges of the board, a tight very good copy.

New York: Harper & Bros., 1838. First edition. Illustrated with 114 engravings of planets and solar systems, both full-page and in the text. No. 83 in Harper's "Family Library" series. 16mo muslin-covered boards; 422 pp. including index plus 2 pp. ads at front and 6 at rear. Spine missing, cover edges rubbed to boards, two names (one contemporaneous, the other dated 1935); scattered light foxing throughout but text block otherwise bright and clean. Dick believed that all planets in the solar system were inhabited and provides a helpful table on p.305 showing estimates for the number of inhabitants on various planets, coming to a grand total of over 21 trillion in our solar system alone.