Author: Dr. G. Hartwig
Title: The Sea and Its Living Wonders
Description: London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861 . Cloth. The second English language edition of this richly illustrated study of marine life. The second UK edition, translated from the fourth German edition by Dr G. Hartwig.Illustrated with a number of woodcuts and twelve chromoxylithographs by British illustrator, naturalist and entomologist Henry Noel Humphreys, and a folding colour map. Collated, complete.A wonderful work, with chapters on seals, walruses, marine fishes, reptiles, cetaceans, marine plants and many more aspects of marine life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor losses of cloth in these regions. Joints starting, but firmly held. A small number of vertical splits to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned, with spotting throughout. Significant closed tear to folding map, repaired to the reverse with tape. Good . Ill.: Henry Noel Humphreys. Good .

Keywords: fish the sea Denizens of the Deep the sea Henry Noel Humphreys


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