The New Natural History; Volume IV, Section VIII. Birds
de Richard Lydekker, et al., Joel A. Allen (preface by)
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair/No Jacket as Issued
- Librería
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Merrill & Baker, 1901. 289pp through 583. Index. Hardcover in 3/4 red leather on cloth, six raised bands, gilt spine decorations. Complete set is illustrated with seventy-two coloured plates and sixteen hundred engravings. Ex Libris sticker to inside front cover. Inner pages are clean (unmarked) but age-toned. Hinges slightly creased but still secure. Inner text block is tight and sound. Endpapers and outer page edges slightly foxed, dust soiling to boards and outer page edges. Shelfwear (covers have some scuffing, fairly heavy rubbing to extremities (down to boards in a few spots), chipping to head/heel to spine, fraying to corners. This volume is the larger birds, herons through moas; it has 4 colored plates with tissue: Night-heron and Boatbill, Wild Duck; Penguins; Ostriches; also several full-page b&w plates. Nice reading copy of this increasingly scarce title. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Título
- The New Natural History; Volume IV, Section VIII. Birds
- Autor
- Richard Lydekker, et al., Joel A. Allen (preface by)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edición
- First Thus
- Editorial
- Merrill & Baker
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1901
- Tamaño
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Palabras clave
- Science Natual History
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Natural History;
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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