The Sea-weed Collector's Guide: containing plain instructions for collecting and preserving, and a list of all the known species and localities in Great Britain

by J. Cocks

$195 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: John van Voorst, 1853. Sm. slim 8vo, xvii, 120, 4, ads. pp. Color frontispiece partially slightly faded . Original grey-green cloth rebacked, front end-paper creased, internally clean and sound. § First edition of this early book on the subject. John Cocks was the first to discover the red seaweed Stenogramme interrupta. The first part constitutes a how to guide to recognising, gathering, cleaning, drying, and mounting specimens followed by: A list

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