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A History of British Butterflies
by Morris, F.O
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John C. Nimmo. Bound in blue cloth with two gilt butterrflies and plant motif to front board, this 1890 6th Edition is VG. Book has been rebacked but without title lettering. V111/184pp with 72 hand-coloured plates plus double page illustration of apparatus required for collecting and displaying. Both sides of second front endpaper are foxed, as is blank verso of frontis illustration. Second front endpaper carries an inscription, and rear second endpaper also foxed both sides. Board corners are sightly rubbed and rebacked spine has faded unevenly. Page 23 has horizontal 6 inch closed tear. Some faults but internally VG . Very Good. Hardback. Sixth Edition. 1890.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0012908
- Title
- A History of British Butterflies
- Author
- Morris, F.O
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Nimmo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Morris: British Butterflies (6th Edition, 1890)
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...