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THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, ICHTHYOLOGY
by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- General Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jackets
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1852. SIX VOLUMES UNIFORMLY-BOUND.Spines decorated and lettered in gilt.Top edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Various dates from 1852-1854. Top of spines chipped, with 1/2 " piece missing top of spine Volume 3. Occasional old water-stains sparing plates. Collated complete with 197 full-page hand-colored plates with tissue guards, six portraits and six vignette title-pages. Several plates are loosened. Each volume has a biographical memoir at front with portrait frontispiece of the featured natural historian. Volumes 35-40 of the larger series. Volume 1, "Fishes", Volume 2, "British Fishes, Part 1", Volume 3, "British Fishes, Part 2"; Volume 4, "Fishes of the Perch Family"; Volume 5, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 1"; and Volume 6, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 2". See photos. . Later Bantam Reprint. Red Cloth. General Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jackets. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015687
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, ICHTHYOLOGY
- Author
- JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jackets
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Bantam Reprint
- Publisher
- W.H. Lizars
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1852
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fish, Ichthyology, Sets, Color Plates
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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