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John Murray, 1878. First edition hardback. The binding is worn and has some staining, there are a couple of cracks between gathers but everything is well bound in. The text is clean throughout.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition (London edition the year before), Green cloth 8vo, very good, light foxing and wear. 435 pp, illus.

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John Murray, London, 1878. Hardcover. 8vo, First Edition. Condition: Good. Moderate edgewear more so to top spine. Very clean interior. Solid binding. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing;.

Published by John Murray, London, 1905, popular edition. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, no dustwrapper. 8ins x 5.5ins, xx, 436pp, 16pp book adverts plus frontis portrait and 15pp plates. Also 38 other illustrations within the text. Occasional light foxing. G+ nr VG.

London: John Murray, 1878. First Edition, First Printing. Leather. Good. 436p. A hardcover book bound in full green leather with a gilt-decorated spine and marbled endpapers and foredges. Front cover starting at top edge but still holds well enough for reading purposes. Rub marks on the boards. Much of the gilt on the spine has rubbed off. Mild edgewear to front free endpaper. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight, apart from the front cover. A biography of the Scottish botanist Robert Dick (1811-1866). Illustrated with numerous black and white engravings.

London: John Murray. G+ : in Good condition plus without dust jacket. Some scattered browning. 1878. [First Edition]. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). xx; 436pp + ads. b/w engravings by author and Leitch, Skelton and Boot. B/w engraving of Robert Dick frontispiece. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: John Murray, 1878. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 5.75 x 8 inches (15 x 20.5 cm). First printing. Green cloth binding, panelled in black to both boards. Slight wear to ends of spine and corners of boards. Rubbing to boards and edges of spine. Page edges untrimmed. Good solid binding. Text has a little light foxing and some margin markings in light pencil. Illustrated. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.75 x 8 inches (15 x 20.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xx, 432

London, Murray, 1878;. 1st Edition; HBk; xx, 436pp with a Portrait etched by Paul Rajon, and numerous Illustrations plus errata; Marbled endpapers with internal hinges repaired with heavy tape, back hinge cracked but firm. Heavy boards with gilt edge decoration ; Black old heavy tape on spine with makeshift paper label, internally very good. All edges gilt. The biography of a Scottish baker who became a self-educated naturalist and an authority on the geology and botany . .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London, John Murray, 1878.. xx+436pp. 8vo. Original cloth, b&w illustrations, some internal foxing, an otherwise excellent copy.. First edition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

With A Portrait Etched by Paul Rajon, and Numerous Illustrations

John Murray, London., 1878. First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 436, [6] adverts. Etched portrait frontispiece and 53 full-page and text illustrations. Recent binding of half tan calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, marbled boards, black leather title-label.Contemporary (1879) ownership signature and ink stamp to first blank. Spotting to prelims. Spine a bit faded. Very good indeed.

London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1878. . Tenth Thousand Edition; 8vo; pp. xx, 442; portrait frontispiece; profusely illustrated; index; original binding; original green cloth, lettered gilt on spine; page edges flecked, cloth faded, pages browned, a good copy.

London: John Murray, 1905. Leather. Good. 8" by 5". Paul Rajon. A interesting biography of Scottish geologist and botanist Robert Dick, by Samuel Smiles. Originally published in 1878. Contains a frontispiece portrait of Dick and several illustrations, both plates and vignettes, by Paul Rajon. Written by the author and reformer Samuel Smiles, who was catapulted into fame after the publication of his work 'Self-Help'. Robert Dick was a notable botanist, whose comprehensive herbarium of mosses, ferns and flower, is currently held in the museum of Thurso. In a half-morocco binding. Externally sound with slight rubbing and some wear to extremities. Front joint is starting. With bookplates of the Royal Colonial Institute Library to front pastedown and endpaper, awarded by the Right Honourable Earl Brassey in December 1917. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Good