A Guide to the Birds of South America
by De Schauensee, Rodolphe Meyer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good++ /Poor
- ISBN 10
- 0050023985
- ISBN 13
- 9780050023983
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh, Scotland: Oliver & Boyd. Blue cloth, gilt titles. 488pp. b/w illus.; b/w & colour plates; maps to end papers. Boards slightly foxed. Dust jacket in deplorable state, very torn and creased and with losses to top edge plus whole of front flap; however now held together in paper and clear plastic protective wrapper. End papers and page edges a little tanned but contents are clean and though slightly shaken, the binding is still holding alright. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Good++. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1971.
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- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112418
- Title
- A Guide to the Birds of South America
- Author
- De Schauensee, Rodolphe Meyer
- Illustrator
- Poole, Earl L. ; Quinn, John R.; Sutton, George M. [Illustrators]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0050023985
- ISBN 13
- 9780050023983
- Publisher
- Oliver & Boyd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 488
- Size
- 235mm x 160mm.
- Keywords
- ornithology avifauna handbook reference unit five
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...