The Dairy Cow; a Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle. with an Appendix on Ayrshire, Jersey, and Dutch Milks: Their Formation and Peculiarities
by Sturtevant, Edward Lewis & Joseph N. Sturtevant
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: A. Williams & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark cobalt blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Moderate edgewear, rubbing and soil; bumped spine ends and corners. Minor foxing to text block. Binding shaken and tender in several places. Text clean. Interior moderately toned and foxed. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9785
- Title
- The Dairy Cow; a Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle. with an Appendix on Ayrshire, Jersey, and Dutch Milks: Their Formation and Peculiarities
- Author
- Sturtevant, Edward Lewis & Joseph N. Sturtevant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. Williams & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1875
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture;
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Text Block
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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