History Of The United Netherlands: Volume II; 1586-89
by John Lothrop Motley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray, 1875. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1875. New Edition. 533 pages. No dust jacket. Volume II. Full leather binding with gilt lettering. Tree calf binding with gilt school logos to front and rear. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front paste down. Front hinge cracked. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting along joints. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- History Of The United Netherlands: Volume II; 1586-89
- Author
- John Lothrop Motley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1875
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.