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Title: Life, Letters and Works of Louis Agassiz Author: Marcou, Jules Place: New York Publisher: Macmillan and Co. Date: 1896 Description: 2 volumes. xxi, 302, [1]; ix, 318, [1] pp. With frontispieces, maps, etc. Extra-illustrated with 8 original albumen photographs, plus an invitation, newsclippings, etc. 19x12.5 cm. (7½x5"), cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition. A standard biography of the prominent Swiss naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz, nicely extra-illustrated with three uncredited cartes-de-visite of Agassiz seated; a cabinet card portrait by Carleton Watkins; an unmounted oval portrait, probably from the same sitting; a full length portrait of Agassiz reading; another of him standing in front of a wooden chalk board; and an oval portrait with ink caption "Agassiz in 1870." With inkstamp in the second volume, "Gift of Mrs. E.W. Blatchford." Lot Amendments Condition: Spine gilt dull; very good. Item number: 258020