London: Edward Lloyd. Poor with no dust jacket. 1896. Hardcover. Ex-Library with library stamps and markings. Owner's signatures. Gutters split exposing spine webbing. Adhesive tape repairs to front gutter and to joint of title page on Volume One. ; Volume One: xiv, [2], 286 pages + colour frontis + colour plates. Volume Two: xiv, [2], 302 pages + colour frontis + colour plates + 8 folding maps. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 181mm x 122mm. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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Seller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Seller's Inventory #: 7596
Title: A Hand-Book To The Primates (Two Volumes)
Author: Forbes, Henry O
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor with no dust jacket
Publisher: Edward Lloyd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1896
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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....
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...