THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN BEAUTY: or, Hints Toward Physical Perfection: Showing How to Acquire and Retain Bodily Symmetry, Health, and Vigor Secure Long Life, and Avoid The Infirmities and Deformities of Age
by Jacques. D. H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wood & Holbrook, Publishers, 1871. later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, xviii + 19-244 pages. Includes many black and white woodcut illustrations. Blind-stamped green pebbled cloth with gilt spine titles in very nice condition. Former owner inscription and bookplate on front endpapers. Clean and tight. 092108D
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000015438
- Title
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN BEAUTY: or, Hints Toward Physical Perfection: Showing How to Acquire and Retain Bodily Symmetry, Health, and Vigor Secure Long Life, and Avoid The Infirmities and Deformities of Age
- Author
- Jacques. D. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- later printing
- Publisher
- Wood & Holbrook, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1871
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
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