1884, The Water World by Prof. J. W. Van Dervoort, HB ILLUS

by J. W. Van Dervoort

$55 · Offered by eBay

This book has been professionally refurbished, retaining all pages in a solid text block within the original boards. First published in 1883, this is an 1884 version "Sold Only By Subscription" by Union Publishing House. Green cloth boards with dulled but still legible/visible black and gilt titling and decoration front board and spine. New blank endpapers including one behind the front board and three more before the title page. The back has one original blank endpaper leaf, and a second which has been affixed to a new endpaper, and then the new endpaper affixed behind back board. The book now has 512 clean and solidly pages, gilt on three page edges, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with B&W full page and within text illustrations. A NICE REFURBISHED COPY! Synopsis found online: "The Water World by Prof. J. W. Van Dervoort is an illustrated late-19th-century popular work about the ocean and marine life. It is not a novel; rather, it is a wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of the sea, combining natural history, science, maritime technology, exploration, and folklore. The work appeared in several editions/printings in the 1880s. Van Dervoort sets out to make the enormous and largely unfamiliar world of the oceans understandable to a general readership. The book begins with the physical ocean—its laws, tides, currents, waves, winds, storms, whirlpools, and other phenomena—and then moves into the living world beneath the surface." B62

• Publisher: Union Publishing House
• Year: 1884
• Condition: Good

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