[Natural History] Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties [Unrecorded binding variant]
London: Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1860. Decorative Cloth. First and only hardcover edition of Gosse's finest work, marking a "major advance in natural history book illustration intended for the mass market." (ODNB). Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plates (11 of which are chromolithographs) by..... more