extinct animals de lankester e r (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. HARDBACK burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on slightly faded spine gilt lettering and gilt embossed fossil on front, lightly bumped at head and tail, page fore-edges uncut but opened, some spotting to page fore-edges and lightly on preliminaries, light browning to end-papers, otherwise fine, clean and bright internally. Please contact me for photographs or further information if required.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:

2402.LANKESTER E.R. 1905 EXTINCT ANIMALS. 331PP. ILLUSTRATED. BINDING LOOSE EX LIB.COPY OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION. (GNH-BASE_152).

Royal 8vo, first edition,pp,xxiii,331, with 218 illustrations, brown cloth titled in gilt to the spine and upper cover, gilt animal blocking to the upper cover, bevelled edges to the covers, uncut, 30pp publisher's list to the rear, some mild foxing to the prelims, a bit shaken.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. xxiii + [i] + 331 + [1] pp. + [30 + [2] pp. publisher's list. . Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board. Bevelled edges Some pages uncut. Boards are water stained and occasional traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by photographic portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, protected by tissue guard and by 218 text figures, including maps. The subjects of chapters include recent extinctions, early man, elephants, horses, giant sloth and kangaroos. Two final chapters are concerned with dinosaurs and marine reptiles, and fishes, trilobites, etc. Edwin Ray Lankester (1837-1939), palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, was a professor at University College, London, 1874-90 and at Oxford, 1891-98. From 1898-1907 he served as Director of the Natural History Museum. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE FOSSILS NATURAL HISTORY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.

1905. Good copy in full calf prize binding. Name erased from bookplate, and slight fading to gilt at hinge.

London, Constable & Co., 1906. 8vo. Original full cloth. Gilt. Frontispiece portrait. XXIII,331 pp., 218 textillustr. Clean and fine.