Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen, 1929. (ii), 160, 18 col plates. . HB. 4to, rebound, qtr calf, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title pieces, teg. Blank padding leaves to rear. Plates clean; final plate with small piece torn from lower corner (not affecting printed area). Vg copy. English edition. All published. This volume was not completed. Includes provisional title page (which states that vol. XVI will contain 20 plates)..

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Bookseller: Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: A27778
Title: Macrolepidoptera of the World 16: The African Geometrae
Author: Seitz, A
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred Kernen
Place of Publication: Stuttgart
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR; Africa; Geometridae; Heterocera; Lepidoptera

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Pemberley Books
Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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....
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...