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Nos Fleurs: Plantes Utiles et Nuisibles
by Leclerc du Sablon
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1906. Cloth. Very Good. A. Millot. 4to. [i-v] vi-xv, 132 pp. Green cloth stamped with off-white titling and floral decoration. Beveled edges, corners and spine ends pushed, cloth rubbed. Red-stained text block edges. Hinges cracked, front hinge mended. Endpapers fragile, sunned at edges, ffep chipped at fore edge. Binding tender but sturdy. All text in French. "Our Flowers: Useful and Harmful Plants." With 350 figures in black and 144 in color, shown in 16 chromolithographic plates.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154
- Title
- Nos Fleurs: Plantes Utiles et Nuisibles
- Author
- Leclerc du Sablon
- Illustrator
- A. Millot
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie Armand Colin
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- flowers, mushrooms, nature, plants, french, chromolithograph, plates
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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