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Beautiful Shells Their Nature, Structure, and Uaes Familiarly Explained with Directions for Collecting, Cleaning, and Arranging Them In the Cabinet and Descriptions of the Most Remarkable Species.
by Adams, H.G
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 156pp. Red cloth, gilt and black lettering to cover and spine, all edges gilt, 8 colored plates and numerous black and white engravings. Edges lightly rubbed, light soil to rear board and spine, text is clean, inscriptions on verso of frontispiece , former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive little book with handsome color plates.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004633
- Title
- Beautiful Shells Their Nature, Structure, and Uaes Familiarly Explained with Directions for Collecting, Cleaning, and Arranging Them In the Cabinet and Descriptions of the Most Remarkable Species.
- Author
- Adams, H.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Groombridge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1871
- Pages
- 158
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Conchology Seashells Univalves Buvakves Multivalves
- Bookseller catalogs
- Color Plates;
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About the Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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