THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. AMPHIBIOUS CARNIVORA
by JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars et al, 1856. Top edge gilt. Gilt designs front cover and spine. Spine extremities are frayed. This is Volume XXV in the set and Volume XI in the "Animals" series. Thjere are thirty-three full-page plates in total counting the portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page, collated complete. THIRTY HAND-COLORED PLATES, one in black and white. There are two plates titles Plate VII, each with a different picture. A memoir of M. Francois Peron follows the Contents. A beautiful set of color plates of seals and walruses. See photos. 336pp.. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015556
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. AMPHIBIOUS CARNIVORA
- Author
- JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, Edited By
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Wear and Soiling
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- W.H. Lizars et al
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hand-colored Plates, Seals, Natural Science
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Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...