Darwiniana; Essays
by Huxley, Thomas H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896, Authorized edition. (hardcover) x, 475pp, [5]. Good to very good. 12mo. Handsomely bound in dark-blue half-leather over marbled boards; lettering and simply rules in gilt to spine. Leather rubbed at extremities, pronounced at hinges; corners raw. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom-edge roughcut. "Chipping," of sorts, at fore-edge of contents page (due to rough-open of uncut leaves). Beginning to start at p.262 / 263; early signs of starting at head of rear blanco. Internally a clean, square copy. This title is part of a volume set (being Vol.II).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123662
- Title
- Darwiniana; Essays
- Author
- Huxley, Thomas H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Darwin, Charles Darwin, Essays, Evolution, Natural Science, Science
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Spafford Books
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Regina, Saskatchewan
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....