Tenby: A Sea-Side Holiday
de GOSSE, Philip Henry;
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London, John Van Voorst, 1856, First edition. . original blind stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, endpaper signature, minor foxing on a few leaves, else a fine clean copy. . 8vo [20 x 13 cm]; xviii, 400, [i], i], 8, [iv],16 [ads, some of author's other books] pp, 24 lithographed plates including 20 colored, frontis. . Gosse was the most important marine biologist of the nineteenth century, the father of sea-side studies and of the aquarium, and a true field naturalist. Some of the ads at the rear of the book are 'Practical Instructions of Tank Management and a list of descriptions, illustrations and prices of whatever relates to Aquaria' in keeping with the aquarium craze at the time which was in a large part encouraged by Gosse's book on aquariums and his others on marine biology. This book is based on a family holiday on the Welsh side of the Bristol Channel in 1854. Freeman & Wertheimer 67. Superb illustrations, many on microscopic life. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Horizon Books
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- Título
- Tenby: A Sea-Side Holiday
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- GOSSE, Philip Henry;
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Original blind stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, endpaper signature, minor fox
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- London, John Van Voorst, 1856, First edition.
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- 8vo [20 x 13 cm]; xviii, 400, [i
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- Nature- Marine & Fresh Water Biology;
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