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HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-1879). Ocean Gardens: the History of the Marine Aquarium. London: Sampson Low, 1857 [1856]. 8°. 12 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (top margins a trifle browned). Original decorated red cloth gilt, gilt edges (rebacked with original spine preserved). Provenance: Margaret Orr, 25 December 1856 (presentation inscription from her uncle). FIRST EDITION, cf.Nissen ZBI 2055.
TUGWELL, George. A Manual of the Sea-Anemones commonly found on the English Coast. London: John van Voorst, 1856. 8°. 7 lithographed plates, one folding, 6 being chromolithographs (occasional light foxing). Original blue cloth, title in gilt on spine (spine somewhat faded). FIRST EDITION. Not in Nissen. Together with 6 others similar including 3 by Shirley Hibberd on seaweed and Charles Kingsley's Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore (Cambridge, 1855). (8)
TUGWELL, George. A Manual of the Sea-Anemones commonly found on the English Coast. London: John van Voorst, 1856. 8°. 7 lithographed plates, one folding, 6 being chromolithographs (occasional light foxing). Original blue cloth, title in gilt on spine (spine somewhat faded). FIRST EDITION. Not in Nissen. Together with 6 others similar including 3 by Shirley Hibberd on seaweed and Charles Kingsley's Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore (Cambridge, 1855). (8)
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