Search Results: tenby a sea side holiday by philip henry gosse

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: John Van Voorst, 1856. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original green cloth hardcover,400 pages,cloth a little marked otherwise very good.We are a real bookshop selliing real books and we are situated in the UK.We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.

London: John Van Voorst, 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, colour plates throughout all correct as called for, 400 pages plus catalogue pages, spine chipped and rubbed, inner hinges weak otherwise a good copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.

John Van Voorst, 1856-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear, pages show minor scattered foxing.

John Van Voorst. Used - Good. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards (faded to brown on spine and edges). Gilt lettering on spine (some loss to cloth on spine). Contains 23 illustrated and coloured plates showing biological illustrations. Textblock is generally clean throughout.

John van Voorst, London, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, olive green cloth. Vg condition. One faint old institutional stamp on title page. Original binding, spine ends lightly chipped, corners slightly bumped. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 398 pp., 24 chromolithographs, collated, all present

John Van Voorst. London. 1856.. pp. xviii, (i) List of Plates, (i) blank, 400. Issue without the plates. Original green cloth, joints weak especially the front, strip cut from front free end-paper and half-title [to remove signature?], spine ends a trifle rubbed and nicked, book-plate of the REV. RICHARD J. LIVINGSTONE and the bookseller's label of J. E. ARNETT, Tenby, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, bibliographer of Gosse and Darwin, with his acceptance note to the letter quoting this book to him in 1974 [@ £3 post paid!]. *STAGEMAN #25 [with plates] -:- FREEMAN AND WERTHEIMER #68 [... there is a very late form of it, which we have treated as an issue, in which the twenty-four plates are absent altogether. We know of no explanation of this, but the book in this form is not uncommon. 1500 copies were printed at a cost of £215.] -:- FREEMAN British Natural History Books #1385 [for the issue with plates].

LONDON : John van Voorst, 1856 A good copy of this classic work on the natural history of the sea shore, in original green decorative cloth binding with 24 plates, of which 20 are partly coloured. Contains a detailed record of a summer holiday that Gosse spent in Tenby studying the shoreline and the wide variety of species that he found. The binding, with blind stamped decoration to both boards, is clean and bright, but with wear. There is pulling to the top and bottom of the spine, and some cloth wear at the front spine joint. The corners are bumped. The original endpapers are present , with slight damage at the front endpaper joint. There is an ink signature to the top of the half title page. With frontispiece (image partly showing through to the back of the paper); tissue guard; title page; preface; contents; plate list; text and index 400pp; advert for Marine Natural HIstory Class; advert for forthcoming publication of Sea Anemones; 4 further pages of adverts. Contents very clean. Small ink note… Read More

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… Read More

LONDON : John van Voorst, 1856 A classic work on the natural history of the sea shore. It gives a detailed record of a summer holiday that Gosse spent in Tenby studying the shoreline and the wide variety of species that he found. it has 24 partly coloured plates of sea creatures - some microscopic. It is in the original green decorative cloth binding which has had a cloth case repair. It has a new green cloth spine to match with leather label and gilt titles. The contents are tight and in generally good condition with some brown spotting. A previous owner has written the magnification (x110) in ink at the bottom of one of the plates.

London: Paternoster Row.: John Van Voorst, 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GOSSE PH. BROOKS Vincent. Near Fine, First edition, 1856, 24 part coloured plates. In modern half blue calf over blue cloth. Spine, attractive gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xviii), [2] pl list, [1], 2-400 pp, [8] adverts, [4] publishers adverts, 24 pls (part coloured), occasional light spot, t.e.g., modern endpapers, bookseller label to fpd. A lovely example. (191*124 mm). (Anderson 353. Stageman 25). There was another issue later without the plates.