The Ark in the Park the Zoo in the Nineteenth Century by Blunt Wilfrid (13 results)

Condition: Good. 0th Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket covered In a Mylar jacket. The foreblock shows signs of foxing, and the pages have slightly yellowed.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to pp.256. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256 pp colour plates, bw illustrations, green cloth with gilt titles. Edges to covers a little sunned, boards slightly bowed, about half to pages have a water stain and cockling to top edges , solid copy in a sound dust wrapper. Signed and dedicated by author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. Library stamps on first and last pages, the page edges are slightly browned. The jacket has some scuffed edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page. Wrapper is in protective plastic sleeve. Wrapper is clean under plastic, other than sellotape marks to back of wrapper. Boards clean. Clean throughout. Very good plus. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1976, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket slightly rubbed (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Illustrated. 4to. Publisher's cloth, slight spotting to edges of text block, not impacting especially on the pages themselves, pictorial dust wrapper bright, gently sunned spine and one small tear, else very good copy. A history of the Zoological Gardens which would become London Zoo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Book Club Associates. Hardback. Slight wear to platic protetive covering at bottom edge of spine. Foreword by Professor Lord Zuckerman. The opening of a zoological garden in 1828 immediately attracted the widest interest, not only throughout Britain but all over the world. It was soon dubbed 'the most delightful lounge in the metropolis', and has retained its enormous popularity ever since. From the start, new acquisitions, gathered from all corners of the globe, were eagerly awaited and admired. The Zoo during the nineteenth century and even up until the present day has remained for countless visitors the only zoo, hardly needing its prefix 'London'. The author, in his highly entertaining account of its development, has made much use of the volumes of press cuttings in the Society's library, not only for the sometimes scandalous accounts of occurences at the Zoo, but also for the charming wood-engravings accompanying them. A wide range of contemporary illustrations including drawings by John Gould, Edward Lear and Joseph Wolf have also been used and combined with the text to make an unusually attractive and delightful book. It is the perfect celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Zoological Society of London, but it is a book that will be read with equal pleasure by animal lovers in all parts of the world. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

[0-241-89331-3] 1976. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 256pp. Black and white and color illustrations bibliography, notes, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Time Period 19th Century. (Natural History, Zoos).

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.