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OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON THE THEORY OF GLACIERS NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE RECENT PROGRESS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF THE THEORY
by Forbes, James D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Good+. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on spine. (xxix) 278pp. Covers with some shelf wear. Spine color lightly faded, ends rubbed..A few lightly foxed pages. Illustrated with 9 plates (one folding) including chromolithographic frontispiece and many text engravings. Geology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17063
- Title
- OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON THE THEORY OF GLACIERS NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE RECENT PROGRESS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF THE THEORY
- Author
- Forbes, James D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- Geology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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