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Actinologia Britannica. A History Of The British Sea-

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Actinologia Britannica. A History Of The British Sea-

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Actinologia Britannica. A History Of The British Sea- Anemones And Corals Philip Henry Gosse Van Voorst, London, 1860 First edition Natural History 12 plates including 11 chromolithograph plates. Plates engraved by Dickes from Gosse's drawings. Publishers green blind-stamped covers. Gilt title vignetted on front. Gilt titles and vignette on spine. Booksellers label + name and date on inside. Lovely condition throughout. xl, 362, [2]. 12 tissue-guarded plates. In-text illustrations. "Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), English naturalist, one ofthe first marine biologists, inventor of the sea-water aquarium." Shipped and insured by recorded delivery

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