Grasshoppers and Crickets of Great Britain and the Channel Islands
by PICKARD, BERNARD C. & RAGGE, Dr DAVID R. (Fore)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hemsley & Sons, The Ilkley Press 1954. Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 131pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, heavy discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
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- Title
- Grasshoppers and Crickets of Great Britain and the Channel Islands
- Author
- PICKARD, BERNARD C. & RAGGE, Dr DAVID R. (Fore)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hemsley & Sons, The Ilkley Press 1954
- Keywords
- nature wildlife insects Great Britain British Channel Islands isles grasshoppers crickets natural history identification orthoptera entomology bugs
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- 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...
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