Stuttgart, Germany: Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, xi + 512 pages plus 25 two-color plates, one black and white plate, and two hand-colored double-page maps, intertextual illustration throughout, three-quarter leather binding over brown cloth. In good + condition overall, and the interior is very good and clean, paper is lightly yellowed with very little only minor foxing, and on a few pages, the previous owner's name is on front free-end paper, internal binding is solid, and illustrations bright. The exterior is good only, leather scuffed and worn through to boards at all corner tips, back strip leather splitting at the rear hinge at top and bottom, with a mid-section breaking loose with leather torn across to front hinge, internal hinges cracked but not broken. This binding is in a condition worthy of restoration for this key text in the history of archeology, paleontology, and geology. Please note: overseas shipping costs are currently out

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Bookseller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16492
Title: Vor der Sundfluth! Eine Geschichte der Urwelt
Author: Dr. Oscar Fraas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung
Place of Publication: Stuttgart, Germany
Date Published: 1866
Keywords: Paleontology; Germany; Geology; Archeology; Evolution; Science; Scientific History
Bookseller catalogs: Science;

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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...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...