Inscets At Home: Being A Popular Account of British Insects. Structures, Habits, and Transformations de J.G. Wood - 1883

George Routledge & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 378 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Light thumb-marking present. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Speckled white marks to front board.

DeWolfe, Fiske & Co, 1901. Hardcover. G/na. Rubbing & edgewearl bumped corners & edges; discoloration/staining; some cracked spine/few pages staring to pull a little; surface tear on free endpage from old price tag; etc. Color and B&W illustrations. 256 pages

Cassell & Co, 1900. Hardcover. Good. 1900. 6th Edition. 167 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pen inscription to title page. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains clear. Noticeable white staining.

Atlantic Publishers and Distributors , pp. 780 . Hardback. New.

Chicago: Conkey, 1900. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Illustrated cloth. Many illustrations throughout. Shelf wear to cloth. Pages are brittle. Binding rather loose but intact. This is an antique, profusely illustrated natural history book.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1890. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto. 244, [16, ads] pp. Illustrated in black and white and from four color photographic plates. Endpapers with minor offsetting, cover moderately soiled with 2" stain on bottom of front panel, spine moderately toned, edges bumped and rubbed, good only, lacking the dust jacket.

London: Longmans Green & Co Ltd, 1891. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Keyl, Zweckler, Smith. Clean maroon cloth boards, silver titles and logo. Spine ends bumped but no edge / corner wear. Cut edges tanned, faint mottling. Clean burgundy endpapers, Edinburgh '67 annotation. Age faded text block, text clean. Fine b/w line drawings including frontispiece. Binding solid. 24 catalogue pages.

London / New York: George Routledge & Sons / E.P. Dutton, 1905. (UK) Bookplate from the City of Sheffield for year ended July 31, 19--, (partially rubbed away) to the front pastedown, no other markings, light spotting to the covers, with lower corner tips rubbed through, endapers tanned,about Good; no Dj. 20 x 13.5 cm, red cloth with gold titles to front and to spine, design device of a rising sun to front and sea cliff scene to the spine, xx, 444pp, index. Colour frontis of "The King of Beasts"; 480 B&W illus of animals and birds in the text. There is a preface (for the first edition) which is dated 1852 and an undated preface for the second (revised) edition. This is a description of the habits and habitats of animals and birds, with some material on fishes and insects, in the correct classification "drawn from personal experience and from the most recent zoological writers". There is a lot of anecdotal material included which makes the most interesting reading.… Leer más

De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1898. Good; foxing, few pg. edges chipped. Decorated cloth; 423p., 300 engravings

8vo. Pp. 632. Original cloth, gilt titles. Very good copy. New impression. Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of of construction. With black & white engravings.