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Verlag: George Routledge and Sons, 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 475 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Missing front free endpaper. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. Much heavier to text block edges, pastedowns, half title page and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Verlag: Thomas Tegg & Son, R. Griffin & Co., London, 1835
Anbieter: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Loosely bound, original brown card boards, cloth spine, tear down most of the rear external hinge split with back board nearly detached, general handling wear with browning and rubbing on the title label on the spine.
Verlag: London, Geo. Roulledge & Sons, nd ( c 1850's?);, 1850
Anbieter: Wheen O' Books, Selkirk, Vereinigtes Königreich
Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books series. Hardback. Good+ condition. Edited with Notes by Sir William Jardine. xxviii, 475pp with illustrated half title numberous delightful illustrations. Marbled endpapers. Original red half leather covers with gilt decoration & title on spine and five raised bands. Edges rubbed. Top edge gilt. A very nice clean copy of a very hard to find edition.
Verlag: Nathaniel Cooke, London, 1853
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). Bright new edition of Gilbert White's study of the natural history of Selborne. New edition of this popular work by Gilbert White, originally published in 1789 under the title The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, this edition edited by Sir William Jardine.An illustrated volume comprising the natural history of Selborne, English village in Hampshire.Gilbert White is considered to be the first ecologist or environmentalist; most of his observations are pertinent, while others are interestingly odd. He was however the first to discover that swifts mate on the wing. His methods differed from earlier ones as instead of studying dead specimens, White observed live animals in their habitats over many years, creating a new kind of zoology, scientific, precise, and based on accumulation of detail.An important book, this volume was mentioned by Charles Darwin when asked what works had deeply impressed him.With numerous engravings in text comprising subjects from natural history and views of Selborne, its vicinity and antiquities, sketched from nature for this edition. With frontispiece and additional illustrated title page. Two leaves of publisher's catalogue to rear.School prize inscription to front free endpaper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative embossing to boards, gilt tooling to spine and front board. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.