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Gosse, Philip Henry

Tenby: A Sea-Side Holiday

1856

195,52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1856
Lugar de impresión
London. John Van Voorst
Autor
Gosse, Philip Henry
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Nature- Marine & Fresh Water Biology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

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. 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. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. 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.