THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. GOATS, SHEEP, OXEN
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
Edinbuirgh: W.H. Lizars, 1856. Top edge gilt. Front cover design in gilt. Spine designs and lettering in gilt as well. Spine extremities frayed. Gilt front cover and spine. This is Volume XXII of the set and Volume VIII of the"Animals" series. Collated complete. Plate 2 is mis-labeled but present. Plate X is torn but complete. Plate XXIV uncolored. Remaining thirty plates are HAND-COLORED. Plates XXX and XXXI are also mis-labeled but present. Portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page (title-page uncolored). "Memoir of John Hunter" follows the Contents. 264pp. See photos. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015550
- Title
- THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. MAMMALIA. GOATS, SHEEP, OXEN
- 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
- Place of Publication
- Edinbuirgh
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mammals, Hand-colored Plates, Natural Science
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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:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...