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Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1899. Hardback.. Very good condition./No dust jacket..

New York: New Amsterdam Book Co. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Circa 1898, complete with 4 chromolithographic plates. xix, [1] 239pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in original blue cloth, gilt on spine bright, binding tight, front hinge starting, with tear to tissue guard. Armorial bookplate of Catharine L. Howard inside cover. There was never a library pocket, call numbers on spine, small library label inside cover, embossed ownership on some pages.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co International Scientific Series No.86, 1899. 1st ed. . Red Series cloth. Good-VG. 13.5 Cm x 19 Cm. (4, series list)+col.f/piece (w.tissue guard)+xix+239, 3 further col.plates after main text, 340 text ills.; traces of erased pencil top verso fr.endpaper, sm. encircled ink 'RR' top first p.of series list, f/piece proud, having apparently been refixed after detachment sometime along the line, tissue guard foxed, sl.offset n t.p. around top and outer margins, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean but sp.faded and end-rubbed, v.sm.trivial bump centre fr.fore-edge. Lubbock's last book on botnay and natural history

London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899., 1899. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, gift inscribed by the Author. Octavo, pp. [4] catalogue, xix, [1], 239, [1]. 4 colour plates as called for, including frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 340 figures within text. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to boards including "The International Scientific Series" emblem. Cover cloth lightly toned and sunned to spine, with bump at head and minor wear to tips. Gift inscription in ink to half-title: " Muriel Percy from Lord Avebury" with note in pencil to verso ffep that the recipient is likely Lady Muriel Percy, the daughter of the Seventh Duke of Northumberland and that Lord Avebury was the title which Sir John Lubbock assumed in 1900. A Very Good copy. Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), the English banker and polymath who made significant contributions in the fields of archaeology and biology, was an influential figure in the debate on evolutionary theory who regularly… Read More