Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs: Containing Seventy-Two Plates (Volume V, only, of VII)
by Meyer, H. L
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1850. First Printing. Leather. Bound in half green morocco over green silk boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on one burgundy and one green leather labels, elaborate gilt tooling in remainder, double gilt borders on covers, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 72 full-page, full-color, plates of British Birds and their Eggs. . Rear board detached but present, front hinge starting, corners bumped, else fine; text block tight and square, clean and bright, all illustrations clean and bright. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. iv, 206 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26887
- Title
- Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs: Containing Seventy-Two Plates (Volume V, only, of VII)
- Author
- Meyer, H. L
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- Birds, Color Plates, Illustrated Books, Leather, Ornithology, Biological Science, Zoology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Technology;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- 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....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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