Germany: Hamberg und Leipzig, 1896 Book. Good. Hardcover. The book is solid, clean and tight with the backed hinged cracked. The title page is lightly chipped and has a three-inch tear along the margin. The cover is in a black cloth around the spine and corners over marbled boards with only light wear though it appears that some professional restoration has been done. The leather spine label is chipped with about 40% missing with about 1/2 dozen letters missing. A piece of the spine label with he letter H is laid inside the front cover. The book contains six plates on heavy boards and a fold-out color plate in the back. In addition, the book contains 19 preliminary pages and 1334 pages..

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Bookseller: JALA Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 009806
Title: Handbuch Psysiologischen Optik
Author: Helmholtz, H. von
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Publisher: Hamberg und Leipzig
Place of Publication: Germany
Date Published: 1896
Keywords: in German

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Spine Label: The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Marbled boards: ...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...