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Peru Its Story People, and Religion by Guinness, Geraldine
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1076
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Morgan & Scott Ltd.,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1909
- Pages: xxiv, 438, [2] pp. ads
Description
London: : Morgan & Scott Ltd., , 1909. First edition. Lrg. 8vo,. Illustrated with plates and a folding map at rear. blue and gilt decorated cloth. corners bumped, frontis and 2 other plates loosely inserted, still a good copy. An informative history of the land of the Incas. The author also retraced the steps of Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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