Ward Hon Mrs (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. fourth edition. vi + 152 pp. 24 text figs. 8 chromo plates. Owners bookplate [James Bruce Simspn 'ALIS NUTRIOR'] pasted to end-paper. Frontis. tissue guard foxed with a little off-setting. A nice copy with a lovely decorative hardback binding embossed in black and gilt to the front board and spine with blind-stamped dec. to the rear board. Sound and tight.…

Condition: V.G. Fifth Edition. p.p. vi-154 + 16 page publisher's list. Fine colour plates and some text illustrations. Original Attractive green gilt cloth. A.E.G.

Condition: V.G. 5th edition. p.p. vi - 154 + 16 page publishers list. 8 colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Original gilt green cloth.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [iv], 56, [8]pp. Bound in publisher's green ribbed cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. With 14 colored plates. Very Good with wear, fading and wrinkling to cloth, binding shaken and front hinge weak, marking to front free endpaper, contents soiled. Mary King Ward was an Irish naturalist, microscopist, astronomer and scientific illustrator. At the time she was one of three women on the mailing list of the Royal Astronomical Society, the other two being Queen Victoria and Mary Somerville.…