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HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. xii,304p., illustrations, light foxing throughout, previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, original blue cloth with red spine titles and illustrated boards, darkened spine, light wear along the edges, a good copy.. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1899. Cloth. Good. 8" by 6.5". None. A scarce edition of this charming work from Elizabeth and Mary Kirby, with many illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece, vignette, sixteen plates and many in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed work on the oceans, with reference to currents, gulf streams, cyclones, creatures of the deep, oxygen, different types of fish, shell fish, sea birds, medicines from the sea, and much more. Written by Elizabeth and Mary Kirby, English writers and illustrators of natural science books and books for children. Their lifelong writing partnership helped to popularize science. In the original quarter blue cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Slight loss to the corners of the boards through chipping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the… Read More

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1902 Later edition of this book on the flora and fauna of the ocean for children. First published by in1884.. Publisher's light brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Green pattered endpapers. All edges gilt. . Octavo. Frontispiece, illustrated title, and 166 text illustrations. Prize bookplate of the Walthamstow Education Committee awarding the book to a Charles Woodbridge at the Forest Road Boys' School. Offsetting to front flyleaves. Otherwise, very clean throughout. A very good, clean copy. Elizabeth Kirby (1823 – 1873) and Mary Kirby (later Gregg, 1817 – 1893) were children's book authors and science writers. Mary's most important work was the Flora of Leicestershire (1848), which she wrote with naturalist Andrew Bloxam. The first edition, which was published with every other page left blank, asked readers to fill in additional botanical information. The 1850 edition compiled these contributions for a total of over nine hundred species. Together, the… Read More