Search Results: actinologia britannica a history of the by philip henry gosse

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Van Voorst. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking frontispiece plate. Endpapers replaced. Split to front hinge at gutter between title leaf and first leaf of the Preface. Rubbing to edges of boards, with 20mm split to cloth along edge of lower corner of rear board. 6mm tear to cloth at upper edge of front board. Ink marginalia on upper blank margin of Plate II: "William Wells / Marine Superintendent". Light uniform foxing to plates. Tissue guards present to 10 of the plates. No tissue guard to the final plate.; xl, 362 pages + 11 of 12 plates (10 colour, 1 black-and-white) + "Erratum in Part III" slip facing page xl. Lacking the colour frontispiece plate. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration on front board and spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 133mm. ; 8vo .

Van Voorst, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Cloth cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear. Armorial bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are tanned with a few minor spots of foxing/smudges and tidemarks.

London: Van Voorst, 1860. xl, 362, 12 plates (11 colour printed). . HB. 8vo, orig. green cloth, rubbed with minor wear to extremities, dec. gt design of coral incorporating title to front board and spine, black-ruled frame and border to front board. Occasional minor foxing. A bright copy. Recent owner's decorative bookplate.. First edition. This study of the British sea-anemones and corals, which at the time was the first detailed investigation of the group, is one of Gosse's most important scientific works. Erratum slip for original Pt III tipped in facing p. 1.Freeman & Wertheimer 108, case c..

London: John van Voorst. VG : in very good condition. Slight foxing. 1860. First Edition. Dark green hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). xl, 362pp + plates & ads. 12 plates (11 in colour). .

London: Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First and only hardcover edition of Gosse's finest work, marking a "major advance in natural history book illustration intended for the mass market." (ODNB). Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plates (11 of which are chromolithographs) by William Dickes, woodcuts in text, erratum slip tipped in at p. 1. Publisher's original unrecorded textured green cloth binding (similar to but distinct from "Case A" in Freeman & Wertheimer), gilt lettering and seaweed decoration to covers and spine, covers elaborately paneled in blind. A superb recased copy, binding tight and secure, faint lilac stamp of Barnsley Naturalists' Society to half-title and margins of plates, mild offsetting but generally excellent, clean condition throughout. Nissen 1641. Freeman (Natural History Books) 1390. Freeman & Wertheimer 108. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 2438. First issued in 12 monthly parts, from 1858 to 1860.… Read More

Van Voorst. London. 1860. . pp. xl, 362, (ii) Advertisement. 11 fine colour-printed plates and 1 plain plate by WILLIAM DICKES, numerous text woodcuts. Erratum slip to Part III. Original gilt decorated cloth, rear board blotched, lacking front free end-paper and half-title and attached frontispiece loose, all plate guards foxed offsetting to the opposing text leaves. *FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER #108 - first issued in 12 monthly parts, 1858 to 1860, this is the first, and only, book form edition. Four thousand copies were printed but it did not sell well; by the end of 1869, 2700 copies remained in stock. The fine coloured plates were printed from Gosse's own watercolours by one of the best colour-printers of the day.

London: Van Voorst, [1858]-1860., 1860. 8vo. pp. xl, 362. with half-title. 12 plates (11 printed in colours) by W. Dickes after drawings by Gosse. with tissue guards. numerous text illus. fly leaves removed, front hinge neatly strengthened, spine lightly sunned, otherwise a very nice copy in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. First Edition in Book Form. Gosse's elaborate work on the sea-amenones and corals is considered to be the most important of all his writings. A standard authority on the subject, it is profusely illustrated, and contains a coloured representation of every identified British species. Freeman & Wertheimer 108. Freeman 1390.. F. Hardcover.