Caii Plinii Secundi: Historiae Naturalis, Libri XXXVII (Volumen Quintum) [Volume V]
by Pliny the Elder & L. Desfontaines
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire. Used - Very Good. 1829. Three quarters cloth over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with gilt raised bands, second and fourth compartments with gilt lettering. Octavo. 666 pp. Text in Latin. Marbled endpapers. From the ‘Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum Notis et Indicibus’ series. Some shelf wear and light scuffing to boards, with gentle rubbing to leather joints. Some toning and dust discoloration to top edge of text block. Pages are generally clean, with very little scattered foxing. Nice tight binding. Overall a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Q16263
- Title
- Caii Plinii Secundi: Historiae Naturalis, Libri XXXVII (Volumen Quintum) [Volume V]
- Author
- Pliny the Elder & L. Desfontaines
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire
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- Text Block
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- Marbled boards
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- 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....
- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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