LIFE OF FRANK BUCKLAND By His Brothet-in-Law , A New Edition with Portrait 1886

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Olive Green Cloth over bevel edged boards with gilt titles and Birmingham school gilt blocked device to front board, 185 x 130 mm approx. All edges of book block gilt, x + 434 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Portrait frontis of subject with tissue guard.1886 Reprint. Biography of the English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. He was born in a noted family of naturalists. After a brief career in medicine he took an interest in fishes and other matters. He was one of the key members and founders of the acclimatisation society in Britain.(Wikipedia) He was a regular contributor to "The Field" Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- colour rubbing to extremities, no notable soiling. Crack to front end paper, mull and sewing cords holding and binding quite sound. Scool prize ink insc. to E W Barnes (later Bishop of Birmingham) to reverse of free front end paper and son's book plate to front paste down - Sir John Barnes- late British Ambassador to the Netherlands and previously Israel.). N° de ref. del artículo 126191

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