Agassiz, Louis

Report on Deep-Sea Dredgings in the Gulf Stream during the third Cruise of the U.S. Steamer Bibb, addressed to Professor Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent U.S. Coast Guard Survey

Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1869. First edition. Pp. 363-386. Original pale green printed wrappers, 8vo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 13. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the front wrapper. Small bookplate sticker with no name on the front wrapper. Some curling to the top edge of the front wrapper, light edge-wear; a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8183

Catalogue: Oceanography

Gosse, Philip Henry

Land and Sea

London: James Nisbet, 1865. First edition. Pp. ix, (iii), 425, 9 (ads); 15 vignettes (woodcuts) as chapter openers. Publisher's original brown cloth, spine is lettered in gilt, front cover with centrally-placed gilt scallop shell containing the title and with the author appearing in gilt below the shell, a gilt border with orate floral designs runs around the front board, beveled edges on front and rear boards, all page edges in gilt, gray clay-coated endpapers, sm 8vo. This work consists of a series of 16 chapters, some of which were first published in magazines such as the Home Friend. The first four chapters explore the island of Lundy. Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel. It lies 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon, England (from Wiki). Gosse was invited to visit Lundy in July 1852 where he spent time studying the natural history there. Signature of Fred Seluett on the front free endpaper. Some light foxing to the frontis section of the book, light edge-wear to the cloth, one small oblong spot on the rear cloth board; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 7950

Catalogue: Oceanography

Gosse, Philip Henry

A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles, in 2 Parts (complete) in 2 volumes

London: John Van Voorst, 1855-1857. Second printing. Pp. xi, 203, 15 (ads), 1 (index), 333 text-figures (woodcuts) + pp. iv, 239, (2, ads), 339 text-figures (woodcuts). Publisher's original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and stamped in blind on the front and rear covers, 12mo. This is likely a mixed set with the binding style and book size slightly different. Volume 1 (or Part 1) is in dark green ribbed cloth with dimensions of 170mm x 110mm. Volume 2 (or Part 2) is in dark green cloth with border lines stamped on the covers that are colored in black with dimensions of 163mm x 105mm. The title page of volume 1 is dated 1855 and the preface is dated July 1855, but the ads at the end of the volume are dated December, 1857. The title page of volume 2 is dated 1856 and the preface is dated August 1856; the 2 pages of ads at the end have no date. Thus, it appears that volume 1 is the second printing. This work covers the entire marine fauna of the British Isles. Only the internal parasites are omitted. Gosse drew some of the woodcut illustrations. The front free endpaper of volume 1 has the signature of Henry Willis, 1858. Volume 2 has no ownership marks but there is a neat pencil annotation on the blank endpaper opposite the title page as well as a pencil landscape sketch on a blank endpaper at the end. Light edge-wear to the cloth of both volumes; a tight and clean set in very good condition..

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Book number: 7949

Catalogue: Oceanography

Michelet, M. J.

The Sea (La Mer)

New York: Follett, Foster and Co., 1863. First American edition Pp. viii, (2), (11)-405. Publisher's original dark green pebble cloth, spine is lettered in gilt and with gilt floral decorations at the base of the spine, front and rear covers are elaborately-stamped in blind, salmon-pink endpapers, 8vo. According to the London Athenaeum, this work 'is another of M. Michelet's dreamy volumes, half science and half fancy with a blending in both of sensuous suggestion.' The author 'discourses upon marine terrors and beauties (from the frontis-matter of the work). Small nineteenth century sailing-ship bookplate of P. Dorr on front endpaper. This could be Ebenezer Pearson Dorr (1817 - 1881) who was a merchant sailor, insurance executive, and meteorologist. Dorr was born in Hartford, Vermont. In 1838, Dorr settled in Buffalo, New York, and became a sailor on the Great Lakes (modified after Wiki). A touch of light marginal foxing to the first 20 pages of the text; a very bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7951

Catalogue: Oceanography