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Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches
by Kidder, D.P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson 1857. (Hardcover) 630pp. Good, no dust jacket. Three quarter black leather with pebbled black boards and gilt lettering on the spine. All edges speckled, fold-out map, illustrated frontispiece, two color plates, black and white and color illustrations, diagrams, notes, appendices, tables, maps. The covers and spine are worn in places, the front hinge is cracked, the front endpaper is stained, there is a previous owner's name on the first page of the preface, page 55 is torn with the loss of four lines of text at the bottom and page 57 has been torn away diagonally with the bottom half of the page lost. "The popular notion of Brazil is, to a certain extent, delineated in the accompanying side-illustrations. Mighty rivers and virgin forests, palm-trees and jaguars, anacondas and alligators, howling monkeys and screaming parrots, diamond-mining, revolutions, and earthquakes, are the component parts of the picture formed in the mind's eye". Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Brazil. (History--South America, Anthropology, History--South America).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153064
- Title
- Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches
- Author
- Kidder, D.P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Childs and Peterson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Keywords
- History--South America, Anthropology, History--South America
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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