FINE HERBARIUM COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 80 SEAWEED [Sea weed] SPECIMENS IN SUPERB VICTORIAN ALBUM,
by Anonymous
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Not Appropriate, 1850. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. Small 4to (22.5 x 27.5cm). 83 sheets of mounted sea-weeds, consisting of approximately 83 specimens. Each specimen with printed name plate. Specimens are arranged one per sheet. Housed in a superb contemporary album of mahogony Morocco leather, extensive gilt to spine compartments, gilt decoration to the front and rear boards, decorative gilt turn-ins. Binding very good, hinges firm, professional and inconspicuous repairs to the head/tail of the spine. The album opens to reveal original satin effect Moire endpapers. The specimens are in a very good state of preservation, carefully pressed to paper. A very attractive Victorian collection of sea-weed specimens housed in a superb album. It is quite unusual to find an album in such a good condition..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033834
- Title
- FINE HERBARIUM COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 80 SEAWEED [Sea weed] SPECIMENS IN SUPERB VICTORIAN ALBUM,
- Author
- Anonymous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Not Appropriate
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1850
- Size
- Small 4to (22.5 x 27.5cm)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Marine Biology; Natural History - General;
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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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...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....