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113 - Fore-Edge painting.- Hartwig (Dr. G.) The Sea and its Living Wonders,7 chromolithographic plates, frontispiece, folding map, and woodcut illustrations, gift ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, light foxing, small tear to map, hinges lightly cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed and slightly scuffed, fore-edge painting of a maritime scene, monogrammed 'TB', pencil inscription to endpaper reads "after a painting by Thomas Bowen", Longman, Green, and Co., 1873 § Ball (Sir Robert Stawell) Star-Land, prize bookplate dated 1903, contemporary calf prize binding, upper cover with gilt crest of St Paul's School,g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Galileo Galilei looking at the night sky through a telescope, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1900 § Buckland (Frank) Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist, prize bookplate dated 1906, contemporary morocco prize binding, spine sunned, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of four gentlemen in a fishing boat, Chapman & Hall, 1876, frontispieces, illustrations, occasional foxing, hinges cracked, rubbed to spine ends, corners, and joints, 8vo(3)
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Fore-Edge painting.- Hartwig (Dr. G.) The Sea and its Living Wonders,7 chromolithographic plates, frontispiece, folding map, and woodcut illustrations, gift ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, light foxing, small tear to map, hinges lightly cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed and slightly scuffed, fore-edge painting of a maritime scene, monogrammed 'TB', pencil inscription to endpaper reads "after a painting by Thomas Bowen", Longman, Green, and Co., 1873 § Ball (Sir Robert Stawell) Star-Land, prize bookplate dated 1903, contemporary calf prize binding, upper cover with gilt crest of St Paul's School,g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Galileo Galilei looking at the night sky through a telescope, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1900 § Buckland (Frank) Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist, prize bookplate dated 1906, contemporary morocco prize binding, spine sunned, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of four gentlemen in a fishing boat, Chapman & Hall, 1876, frontispieces, illustrations, occasional foxing, hinges cracked, rubbed to spine ends, corners, and joints, 8vo(3)
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