Cooke a H Shipley a E (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. MacMillan & Co., 1913, 2nd Edition, 8vo, 535 pages. Hardcover edition bound in a green cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket. Fold out map frontis with 2 additional maps and numerous illustrations. Book very good. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of "Richard I. Johnson" to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Minor Edge Wear and Soiling. No Jacket. First Edition. Top edge gilt. This is Volume 111 of the Cambridge Natural History series. Large fold-out frontispiece map with three additional maps. Replete with text illustrations, graphs, charts, and diagrams. Mild-to-moderate foxing, never heavy. 535pp. plus adverts. Size: Thick Octavo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In original green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 535pp+ads. Illustrated throughout. (light wear to extremities). b/w Illustration + Foldout Map (illustrator).

Octavo, marbled paper covered boards (hardcover), red leather spine label, gilt letters, fold-out frontis. piece containing world map, 535 pp + ads. Very Good, with sunning to edges and spine. Natural History, Mollusks, Brachiopods, British History. nslic.

Cloth Covered hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/a. First Edition. In green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 535 pages with numerous black and white photographs throughout text, as well as large fold-out maps, i.e. 16" x 9" map to frontispiece and four others. There is minor shelf wear to the extremities of the cover and offsetting to the feps. There is occasional, minor foxing throughout the book. Otherwise the book is in good condition, clean and unmarked. Size: 9" X 6.5". No.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, xiii + 536 + (7)pp adverts, coloured maps, plans and numerous illustrations, bound in green cloth, gilt lined and gilt lettered, spine expertly and neatly re-laid, very good condition, Macmillan and Co., London, 1895. * this is Volume 3 (complete in itself) of the Cambridge Natural History - a highly rated publication. Fascinating and informative study of oysters, slugs and snails, including their uses in culinary and medical settings. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book is green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine only and gilt lines on the front cover. Book has very light edge wear and bumped corners. Top edge of pages is gilt. Four Maps, three of which are fold-out maps. Some spotting within , mostly along the edges and end papers.Dark blue end papers. Binding is tight. Overall a very nice copy of this book. INCLUDES FAST AND FREE USA SHIPPING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1895, First Edition. Thick Octavo. 16cm x 23cm approx. pp.[xiii]; 535; [4]; [adverts]. With errata slip. Illustrated with numerous text-figures and four maps. Original green cloth, gilt ruled with gilt titles to spine. Binding secure. Spine a little dulled, with minor rubbing and shelf-wear to extremities. Generally clean within. Bookplate to end paper for prominent British physician, Dr. Ernest Bosdin Leech. A 'Very Good' copy.…

Condition: Very Good. Second reprint of title first published in 1895. The Cambridge Natural History (all 3 authors also taught at Cambridge). HB. Original green cloth lettered and bordered in gilt, with gilt top page edges. xi, 535pp. Hand-cut fore-edges to pages. With 4 maps in plates including folding frontispiece, and 334 figures in the text: line engravings in beautiful detail. This is an ex Rugby School Natural History Society copy, but in Very Good clean, well-bound condition. Library stamp and label inside front cover, and number with small residue of label to spine cloth. Bright covers, clean page faces, a few index pages at back have been carelessly cut leaving tags and small losses at fore-edges.…

Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Foxing to tissue guard to fold-out frontispiece (some transferring to map), but generally a clean tidy copy with just a few areas of faint foxing. Weight: 1 Language: English Publisher's green cloth, gilt bands.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this illustrated discussion of molluscs and brachiopods, and a full calf prize binding. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with three folding maps, and one map plate. With further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.An informative work of zoology and natural history, with discussion of molluscs provided by the Rev. A. H. Cooke, discussion of recent brachiopods from A. E. Shipley, and discussion of brachiopod fossils from F. R. C. Reed.In a full calf prize binding.Volume III of the 'Cambridge Natural History' series. In a full calf prize binding. Back strip age toned, with boards bright. Minor bump to back strip head. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Map frontispiece lightly chipped to fore edge. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…