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Title: Nereis Boreali-Americana: Part I. Melanospermae; Part II. Rhodospermeae; Part III. Chlorospermeae, in 3 volumes, complete.
Description: Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1852, 1853, 1857. First edition. Pp. 150; 258; 140, with 50 full page hand-colored plates, folding charts of algae lists at back of Part III. Publisher's original gilt-decorated and blind-stamped Smithsonian-issue dark green cloth, spine is lettered in gilt, sm folio. Each volume is in a different style of the original Smithsonian cloth, part III has the original Smithsonian cloth boards but a new dark green cloth spine, also lettered in gilt. Part III has the a circular blind-stamp of the American Museum of Natural History and a circular ink stamp of the Staten Island Institute at the top of the title page, there are no other ownership marks in part III or in Parts I or II. Rarely offered in the original Smithsonian cloth, but as this issue has three different binding styles, it is offered at a reduced price. Some browning to the endpapers of part I, the text and hand-colored plates of all parts is bright and clean; overall a very good copy..

Keywords: Aquatic invertebrates botany aquatic plants algae brown algae red algae green algae melanospermae Rhodospermeae chlorospermeae William Harvey North America

Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Natural History Books
- Book number: 4378

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