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Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value and Distinguishing Characteristics, With Simple Tests for Their Identification
by Harry Emanuel
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Camden Hotten, 1865. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1865. First Edition. 266 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Contains black and white illustrations and plates. Severe cracking to gutters causing pages and plates to be loose or detached. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Newspaper clippings to front endpaper and pastedown. Small bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. Rough-cut edges with small tears and creases. Faint thumb-marking to pages on occasion. Plates are noticeably tanned and foxed. Boards have moderate edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable splits to joints, corners, and spine edges with loss and fraying. Lettering to spine is darkened. Visible black marks with scratches overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1667220473MEP
- Title
- Diamonds and Precious Stones: Their History, Value and Distinguishing Characteristics, With Simple Tests for Their Identification
- Author
- Harry Emanuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
- Date Published
- 1865
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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