Philip Henry Gosse — Life in Its Lower, Intermediate, and Higher Forms or Manifestations of the Divine Wisdom in the Natural History of Animals

New York, Robert Carter and Brothers , 1857. Cloth. A scarce American printing of this work of natural history. Featuring several plates, including a frontispiece of the Great Ant-Eater. Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist who popularised natural science. In a cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed with wear to extremities. Front board is detached, and rear board is held by the cords only. Backstrip is absent with cracking to the spine. Internally, binding is strained in places. Bright, although with light foxing throughout, and some marginal tide marks to the first few pages. Ink signature to the endpaper. Fair . Ill.: None. Fair .