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RESULTATS SCIENTIFIQUES DU VOYAGE AUX INDES ORIENTALES NEERLANDAISES
by Straelen, Victor Émile van
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Bruxelles: Musée Royal d' Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 1933. Hardcover. Large quarto, 222 pages + 181 black and white in-text illustrations and 91 black and white photographic plates with tissue guards. Very good. Bound in full red cloth with black painted label bearing gilt text; Spine somewhat sunned; Light marking and staining to boards; light bumping to edges and corners of boards; Original paper wraps bound in; Ink inscription to title page; Text block age-toned; Tissue guards age-toned and somewhat foxed. Introductory volume only of a four-volume set published between 1933 and 1939. Text in French. SH consignment.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1361310
- Title
- RESULTATS SCIENTIFIQUES DU VOYAGE AUX INDES ORIENTALES NEERLANDAISES
- Author
- Straelen, Victor Émile van
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Musée Royal d' Histoire Naturelle de Belgique
- Place of Publication
- Bruxelles
- Date Published
- 1933
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
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