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Cynegetica, Or Essays on Sporting Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting
by Blane, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: John Stockdale, 1788. Leather Bound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 292, [4] pages with additional publications at the rear. Includes the engraved frontis and the engraved title page. Hardcover bound in full calf leather. The binding is worn and bumped, and there is some cracking to the hinges, especially near the headcap. Outer edges of the text block are toned. A previous owner's name inscribed in ink on the front pastedown. Some pencil markings in the upper right corner of the rear pastedown. There is light foxing to the end papers as well to the title page and adjacent frontispiece. The text is toned.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051431
- Title
- Cynegetica, Or Essays on Sporting Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting
- Author
- Blane, William
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Stockdale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1788
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1788; William Blane; Hunting; Sporting; Britain; British; Fine Bindings; Leather Bindings; 18th Century; Rare; Antiquarian; Collectible; Hunting; Hares; Hare; English; John Stockdale.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat 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...
- 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...
- 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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