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Houghton Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1886. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards tight and straight, gilt spine titles bright and readable. Owner name, date to title page. Owner note to upper margins pp.2 and 3, four pages show sporadic pencil underlinging. ; 157 pages .

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Boston: Hought, Mifflin and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1871. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth. xi, 157 pages. Notes, abbreviations list, black and white illustrations, systematic table, and index. An early study of regional marine life with sections on starfish, sea urchins, and jellyfish. A beautiful copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields,, 1865. First edition. A strikingly illustrated collaboration between mother and stepson, this book is a response to the "want often expressed for some seaside book of a popular character describing the marine animals common to our shores" (preface). It was produced by the noted naturalist Agassiz family, with text by Elizabeth and supported by Alexander's notes and drawings. Elizabeth Agassiz is notable in the history of women's education as the first president and co-founder of the all-female Radcliffe College, known as the "Harvard Annex". She dedicates this book to her husband, the zoologist and geologist Louis Agassiz, "whose principles of classification have been the main guide in its preparation" (dedication). Octavo. Original brown pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, decorative centrepiece blocked and framed in blind, grey endpapers. With numerous illustrations, many full-page, after drawings by Alexander Agassiz. Spine sunned and ends… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. 1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to "Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz". 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate anti-Darwinist, whereas Wyman had become an ally! ALEXANDER EMMANUEL RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1835 - 1910), son of Louis Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, and in 1859 became an assistant in the United… Read More