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A HANDBOOK TO THE MARINE AQUARIUM Containing Practical Instructions for constructing, stocking, and Maintaining a Tank, and for Collecting Plants and Animals
by Gosse, Philip Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Van Voorst, 1856. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition, Revised. 12mo [17. 5 x 11 cm]. Pp. viii, 1-48, [8], adverts at rear for six Gosse titles (see below), b/w woodcut frontispiece plate. Publisher's textured green cloth with blind stamped decoration, gilt titling to the front board, very good light wear only. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's signature, original end papers, the front paste-down very slightly stained, joints firm. A very good copy, far better than normal. [Notes: it was Gosse who coined the name 'aquarium', the adverts at the rear cover one Gosse title per page, with detailed descriptions of the following: Marine Natural History Class, British Sea-Anemones, A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, The Aquarium, A Manual of Marine Zoology, and Tenby] ..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032968
- Title
- A HANDBOOK TO THE MARINE AQUARIUM Containing Practical Instructions for constructing, stocking, and Maintaining a Tank, and for Collecting Plants and Animals
- Author
- Gosse, Philip Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Publisher
- John Van Voorst
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- 12mo [17. 5 x 11 cm]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Marine Biology;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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