HISTOIRE NATURELLE: Racontee a la Jeunesse ou Expose des Instincts et des Moeurs Des Animaux Precede D'une Notice Sur Les Races Humaines
by Mme Achille Comte
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: P.-C Lehuby, circa 1829?. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. Text in French. Government approval for publication 1829 but no other date. Quarto, 416 pages + 10 color plates, intertextual black and white illustrations throughout, fore-edges and endpapers marbled, gilt titles leather spine with red cloth boards. A good copy only, internally generally clean, color plates bright, internal binding solid, paper lightly foxed, but a small dampstain to the corner margin (not text), BUT both hinges broken, and marbled endpaper detached and edge chipped, exterior spine worn with top 2" chipped away and another 2" section coming loose, fore-corner tips worn through to boards. Note: overseas postage rates are currently very high.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7157
- Title
- HISTOIRE NATURELLE: Racontee a la Jeunesse ou Expose des Instincts et des Moeurs Des Animaux Precede D'une Notice Sur Les Races Humaines
- Author
- Mme Achille Comte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- P.-C Lehuby
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- circa 1829?
- Keywords
- Nature; French Language; Biology; Zoology; Scientific History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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