Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII. Complete in 10 Volumes
by Caii Plinii Secundi (Caius Plinius Secundus)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1827. Hardcover. University library withdrawls in full leather with gilt decoration and two red bands to spine; all have degrees of chipping at spine; marbled endpapers; gilt still bright; volume 4 and 8 are rebacked with brown cloth tape; black call-number label attached to lower spine of each volume; contents are crisp, bright and unmarked but for very occasional faint foxing; "withdrawn" stamps and pencilled call numbers to endpapers . Volume 2 is bound in two separate parts making for a total of 11 books. ; 5.25 x 8.5" .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32662
- Title
- Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII. Complete in 10 Volumes
- Author
- Caii Plinii Secundi (Caius Plinius Secundus)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1827
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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