The Pygmies
by De Quaterefages, A.; Starr, Frederick (translator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co., 1895 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. xiv, 255 pp, editor's preface, introduction, list of b&w illustrations, I. The Pygmies of the Ancients, According to Modern Science; II. General History of the Eastern Pygmies; III. Physical Characters of the Eastern Pygmies; IV. Intellectual, Moral, and Religious Characters of the Mincopies; V. Negritos Other than the Mincopies; VI. The Negrillos, or Pygmies of Africa; VII. Religious Beliefs of the Hottentots and the Bushmen; appendix A-C; index. Slightly cocked, slight bump-turns to forecorner board tips.. Owner's plate on front pastedown with inked names of recto ffep, minor edge wear, and age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004872
- Title
- The Pygmies
- Author
- De Quaterefages, A.; Starr, Frederick (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOLOGY AFRICA HISTORY PYGMIES RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ASPECTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- ANTHROPOLOGY;
- Size
- Small Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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