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Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Volume III, Waders to Gulls
by Cramp, Stanley [chief editor]; Various
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0198575068
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575061
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. This is the third volume of a 9-volume series covering different bird groupings. The volume contains descriptions of 112 species. Each species is shown in color plates, and maps show breeding and wintering areas. There is a special section of colored plates of eggs at the end of the book. Quarto. Dark blue cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Brown illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white title to front and spine panels. Pages are bright and clean, with minor smudging to top/side edge of text block. Binding is cocked. Dust jacket has rubbing, slight wear at top, a small open tear to front panel, a small closed tear to top of spine panel, and creasing on bottom corner of back panel. 913 pages, including index. NAT/061522.
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- The Kelmscott Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35658
- Title
- Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Volume III, Waders to Gulls
- Author
- Cramp, Stanley [chief editor]; Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0198575068
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575061
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1983
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
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