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The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America
by Lewis, Elisha J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1855. Light to moderate shelf wear, fraying at corners, bumped corners and edges, light separation at gutter,p.111-113 bent bottom corner, small tear p.223, parchment paper separating two frontispieces heavily foxed, rear free endpaper corner torn, otherwise textblock and binding clean and tight. . Embossed Blue Cloth. Good+. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IB117
- Title
- The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America
- Author
- Lewis, Elisha J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Lippincott, Grambo, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- Hunting, Shooting, Wilderness, Outdoors, Sportsmen, Sports, Game Birds, Wild Fowl
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting & Fishing/Firearms;
- Size
- 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
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