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Familiar Trees. With 80 Coloured Plates. (First and Second Series; Two Volume Set)
by Boulger, G. S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. W. H. J. Boot. 12mos. xvi, 160; xvi, 168 pages, indexed at the end of Volume II. Hardcovers bound in 3/4 dark navy blue leather with burgundy marbled paper-covered boards. Raised bands on the spines with compartments tooled in gilt and with burgundy and brown leather labels on the spines. All edges marbled, and with marbled endpapers. Light to moderate wear to the bindings. The hinges are secure and the leather is supple. There is a bit of rubbing to the front board of Volume I. Text blocks are sturdy. The text is a little toned shows some foxing around the plates. Overall an attractive set. Collates complete with 80 color plates. Each volume contains 20 trees, and each tree has two color plates: one image of the tree and a second image of the leaves, flowers, fruit or nuts. No date; likely late 19th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051311
- Title
- Familiar Trees. With 80 Coloured Plates. (First and Second Series; Two Volume Set)
- Author
- Boulger, G. S
- Illustrator
- W. H. J. Boot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 19th Century; G. S. Boulger; W. H. J. Boot; Familiar Trees; Botany; Horticulture; Natural History; Color Plates; Colour; Rare; Collectible; Fine Leather Binding; Multi-Volume Set.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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