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Ocean gardens : the history of the marine aquarium, and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation / by H. Noel Humphreys.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1857 Humphre
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aquariums.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1857.
- Booksellers' labels (Provenance).
- Binders' tickets (Binding) -- 1857.
- Emerald green (pigment and insecticide)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 111, p., 12 leaves of col. plates : ill.; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sampson Low, Son, and co., 1857.
- Notes:
- Cover design by Henry Noel Humphreys.
- Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by Bone & Son, 76 Fleet Street, London."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Booksellers' label on upper pastedown: "Sold by Jas. W. Queen, optician, no. 924 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia."
- Bound in original publisher's emerald green cloth.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Cited in:
- King, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880, 69 (p. 23)
- OCLC:
- 7471734
- Access Restriction:
- This binding has tested positive for arsenic and access to this item is restricted
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