Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of HMS Challenger Round the World, in the Years 1872-1876 Under the Command of Capt Sir G S Nares and Capt F T Thomson
Author:
MOSELEY, H N
Title:
Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of HMS Challenger Round the World, in the Years 1872-1876 Under the Command of Capt Sir G S Nares and Capt F T Thomson
Publisher:
Macmillan & Co 1879
Description:
FIRST EDITION, ALL PLATES & MAPS PRESENT, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 620pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning to spine, minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters of prelims, moderate foxing & light soiling to prelims, prev. owner's name to prelims, occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout)
Keywords:
first editions exploration history voyages naturalists HMS Challenger 19th nineteenth century nature science