The Universe - Or The Infinitely Great and The Infinitely Little.
1882Best.-Nr. 29440AB1882. Sixth Edition. London Blackie & Son 1882. Octavo. Frontispiece XVI 564 pages. Original very decorative Prize-Binding for the "Hastings & St.Leonards-on-Sea Ladies College English Prize for the Year 1885 / Full dark green morocco with embossed ornament and gilt lettering on spine. Stunning marbled endpapers with gilt ornament-border to pastedowns. Binding firm and besides some minor rubbing to spine and corners in very good condition. Includes chapters on "The Animal Kingdom / The Coral and its Builders / Insects: Marvels of Insect Organization / Slave-makers and Warlike Tribes Talking about Insects ! / The Architecture of Birds / The Migrations of Animals / The Vegetable Kingdom / The Seed and Germination / Fossils / The Mountains - Cataclysms and Upheavals of the Globe / Caverns and Grottoes / Volcanoes and Earthquakes / Glaciers and Eternal Snows / The Sidereal Universe / The Stars and Immensity / The Nebulae / The Solar World / Popular Errors on "Monsters and Superstitions" etc. unknown
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