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Alpine Plants; Figures and Description of some of the most striking and beautiful of The Alpine Flowers
by Wooster, David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Jupiter , Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Bell & Daldy, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (26 x 17 cm). 152 pp. 54 colored plates. Blind tooled blue cloth covers with gilt flower to upper and gilt titles to spine. Wear to head/tail of darkened spine, edges and corners. "Hand colored" in pencil to paste-down endpaper. Rest of text block tight and unmarked. Multiple pages unopened. Occasional light foxing to text and several illustrations. Second series ( also by Bell & Daldy) followed in 1874.
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- Bookseller
- Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2479
- Title
- Alpine Plants; Figures and Description of some of the most striking and beautiful of The Alpine Flowers
- Author
- Wooster, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bell & Daldy
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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About the Seller
Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
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Jupiter , Florida
About Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Liberty Book Store, ABAA, FABA, IOBA, with offices in Jupiter Florida, is an online (and by appointment) antiquarian bookstore that BUYS and SELLS RARE and INTERESTING BOOKS. Our primary interests are the American Antebellum period, Association Copies, Automotive, Books With A Story, Floridiana, Maritime History, RR Donnelley bindings, and books of exceptional beauty or scarcity.
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Edges
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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....
- First Edition
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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