Evenings at the Microscope; or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life
by Gosse, Philip Henry
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Original red embossed cloth, gilt microscope motif to front, gilt decoration and lettering to spine. xii+505pp. b/w illus. Shelf wear to boards with spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Upper board partially detached; backstrip split in two and top half also partially detached. Spine darkened. Spine cracked in several places but binding holding. Pages a little tanned and very slightly foxed in places but text and illustrations clear. . Fair. Hardcover. 1859.
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- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114194
- Title
- Evenings at the Microscope; or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life
- Author
- Gosse, Philip Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1859
- Pages
- 517
- Size
- 195mm x 130mm.
- Keywords
- history science microscopy natural history unit fifteen
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys
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- Foxed
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