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Quatrefages, A. De

The Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily

1857

195,52 €

Horizon Books

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Détails

Année
1857
Lieu d'édition
London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts
Auteur
Quatrefages, A. De
Edition
First edition in English.
Thème
Travel - Europe Naturalists Travels
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [20 x 13.5 cm]; 2 volumes bound in one, xix, 355; vii, 375 pp, the half title page is present in each volume. later half red morocco & marbled boards, gilt spine title lettering and gilt designs, gilt rules & raised bands, small signature in margin of title page, small note in margin of text, boards slightly rubbed, else near fine, solid attractive binding. A pic Freeman 3110. The author was an important French naturalist and ethnologist. Includes the Channel Islands, archipelago of Chausey, archipelago of Brehat, coasts of Sicily in some detail, Bay of Biscay, coasts of Saintonge, etc. An obituary of 1892 pasted in rear of book states that he was 'the last great opponent of the Darwinian theory of transformation'.
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