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Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States
by Gentry, Thomas G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1882. First Edition. 1/2 leather. Chromo-lithograph plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 300 pages; 1882 J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia. 1st edition. Soundly bound in period 1/2 pebbled leather and marbled paper covered boards. Boards are thick and heavy with beveled edges. Spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands; compartments detailed with extra gilt and bands rolled. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 51 chromolithograph color plates together with chromo title page, all with tissue guards intact and neat. Chromolitho title page bright and clean but tissue guard foxed. Light scuffing and rubbing to leather over the joints, corners and raised bands. Corners with bumping and rub through of the leather. Some signatures starting. Plates are generally quite fresh and bright with a few scattered plates exhibiting light foxing to plate and heavier foxing to tissue guard. Pages 82 -84 and Plate XV have an instance of soling mid page, almost imperceptible on the plate. Superficial toning to page stock edges and some mild offsetting from the plates to adjacent leaves of text (despite tissue guards). Table of contents lists several (4) preliminary plates, only 1 of which is present in this copy. Sound and clean. About VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45421
- Title
- Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States
- Author
- Gentry, Thomas G
- Format/Binding
- 1/2 leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. A. Wagenseller
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1882
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Chromolithograph illustrated; color plate books;
Terms of Sale
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15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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