L. Annaei Senecae: Pars Secunda sive Opera Declamatoria (Volumen Unicum)
by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus & M.N. Bouillet
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire. Used - Very Good. 1831. Three quarters cloth over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with gilt raised bands, second and fourth compartments with gilt lettering. Octavo. viii & 702 pp. Text in Latin. Marbled endpapers. From the ‘Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum Notis et Indicibus’ series. Some shelf wear and light scuffing to boards, with moderate rubbing, splitting, and chipping to leather joints. Some toning and dust discoloration to top edge of text block. Pages are generally clean, with very little scattered foxing. Nice tight binding. Overall a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Q16269
- Title
- L. Annaei Senecae: Pars Secunda sive Opera Declamatoria (Volumen Unicum)
- Author
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus & M.N. Bouillet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Marbled boards
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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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