Ocean Flowers And Their Teachings

Item Details

Bath, Binns And Goodwin, 1846, Leather

First Edition, Very Good

iv, 146 p., 38 leaves of plates, 2 unnumbered pages. 8vo bound in full red morocco, stamped in pictorial gilt with a central vignette of shells, seaweed, and foliage. 38 leaves of mounted specimens as follows: Part I. Algae; Part II. Coralline and sponge; Part III. Zoophytes. 
 

Text includes excerpts from Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, George Crabbe, John Herschel, Charles Darwin, William Jackson Hooker.  (30656) $750.00