Author: DARWIN Charles
Title: On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. Edited, with an Introduction, by Joseph W. Williams. FIRST SCOTT LIBRARY EDITION
Description: Walter Scott,, n.d. [c.1900]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with large folding coloured map as frontispiece, 4 coloured plates and 8 woodcut illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of dark green cloth, upper board ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, laid endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. Published as no. 64 in the series 'Scott Library', with 16pp publisher's series and general catalogues bound in at end. The second of the two editions edited by Williams, following those of Bonney (1889) and Judd (1890). Also includes 'On Certain Areas of Elevation and Subsidence' (serial publication 1837; Freeman 1647). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 293.

Keywords: natural history, darwin, charles darwin, coral reefs, pacific, evolution, genetics, beagle, joseph wiliams


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