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NATURAL HISTORY.
by MILES, ALFRED H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Titles in black and gilt. Cameo vignette of rhinoceros on front cover. Top edge gilt. Small ownership stamp on endleaves. Front hinge starting to weaken. Twenty chromolithographic plates of the natural world. 385pp.. First Edition. Olive Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001377
- Title
- NATURAL HISTORY.
- Author
- MILES, ALFRED H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY, MAMMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS, ILLUSTRATED
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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