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Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemonies and Corals
by Gosse, Philip Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
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 .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5597
- Title
- Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemonies and Corals
- Author
- Gosse, Philip Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Van Voorst
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
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- Rubbing
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