1860 Actinologia Britannica A History of The British Sea-Anemones and Corals

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

'Erratum in Part III' tipped in to preface. With a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.

The first and only edition of the work, in the original publisher's green cloth binding. 

With twelve plates including a frontispiece, twelve of which are chromolithographs, and numerous in text vignettes. Collated complete. 

An extraordinary exploration into British marine biology. Written by Philip Henry Gosse, an English naturalist remembered for being an important proponent of the aquarium, coining the term with his work 'The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea'. Gosse was a pioneering marine biologist.