Beschreibung:

first edition, 1 colour lithographed frontispiece and 7 plates, wood-engraved illustrations in text, [1872] § Carson (Rachel) The Edge of the Sea, first edition, second printing, illustrations, Massachusetts, 1955 § Dana (James D.) Corals and Coral Islands, first English edition, colour frontispiece, woodcut plates and illustrations, 3 lithographed maps (2 folding), 1872 § Yarrell (William) A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., second edition, wood-engraved illustrations, bookplates of Charles V. Mitford, 1841 § Innes (William T.) Goldfish Varieties and Water Gardens, first edition, colour frontispiece, illustrations (many colour), labels removed from pastedowns and front free endpaper, 1947, fourth calf, else original cloth, first pictorial gilt and with g.e., third and last gilt, third worn and spine darkened, others rubbed, all marked; and c.35 others Marine Life & Fish, 8vo & 4to (c.40)