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Edward Stanford, 1881. Hardback. The decorative cloth binding is worn and the hinges are broken internally. The text and plates are clean throught and are well bound together, the advert leaves at the end are torn and detached.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-09-12. Paperback. Used: Good.

Macmillan, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 1933. Reprint. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-09-12. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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BiblioLife, 2009-05-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Life and Her Children :Glimpses of animal life from the amoeba to the insects.

BiblioLife, 2009-05-20. Hardcover. Used:Good.

London: MacMillan. Very Good. 1933. Reprint. Hard Cover. xii, 312pp; numerous illustrations, blue boards, title and dec in gilt.; 195 x 125mm .

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in her own right, lecturing, editing such prominent scientific treatises as Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1877) and Heinrich Leutemann's Animals from Life (1887), and writing imaginative introductory science books like this one. Buckley's signature educational style used fanciful metaphors and a whimsical writing style with the aim of evoking a sense of wonder at the marvels science reveals to the curious observer of nature. Buckley was a close friend of Darwin's, meeting through her employer and mentor Charles Lyell, who was crucial in bringing Darwin's theories to publication, and her understanding of the deeper meaning of evolution was many… Read More

Edward Stanford, 1881. Hardcover. Good. . An early printing. Blue leather boards with gilt lettering and dentelles. Fading to spine, some rubbing at edges, general shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

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