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Museum of Antiquity: a Description of Ancient Life
by Yaggy, L. W. ; T. L. Haines
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Law, King & Law. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1884. Hardcover. Full embossed leather gilt, beveled boards, AEG, marbled endpages. Bookplate. Front hinge cracked at title page, spine pulling from text block. Leather edges rubbed. PO name is gilt stamped to lower cover. Includes 7 tissued steel- plate engravings as called for. The contents are very nice. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 944 pages .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46794
- Title
- Museum of Antiquity: a Description of Ancient Life
- Author
- Yaggy, L. W. ; T. L. Haines
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Law, King & Law
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1884
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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,...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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