The Earth in Past Ages : The Useful Knowledge Library
by Seeley, Harry Govier
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1895. A lovely geology book on fossil location and stratafication. CONDITION Blue cloth boards with whith decoration and tille and gilt spine title, foxed eps, pp196 with 40 nice illus and photos. A tight clean copy with no foxing to interior.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6662
- Title
- The Earth in Past Ages : The Useful Knowledge Library
- Author
- Seeley, Harry Govier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Geology
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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