Insects At Home: Being A Popular Account Of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits And Transformations
by Wood, Rev. J. G. Wood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Magalia, California, United States
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1872. No Edition Stated. Half-Bound Leather. Green half-bound leather and gilt top page ends and marbled endpapers; covers have some rubbing w/several small tears, owner's name stamped on flyleaf, "323" in grease pencil on verso of FFEP, pages lightly toning; illustrated; 670 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of Paradise (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- N1632
- Title
- Insects At Home: Being A Popular Account Of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits And Transformations
- Author
- Wood, Rev. J. G. Wood
- Format/Binding
- Half-Bound Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- No Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Company
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- Nature, Insects, British Insects, Great Britain, England, Entomology
Terms of Sale
Books of Paradise
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About the Seller
Books of Paradise
Biblio member since 2003
Magalia, California
About Books of Paradise
Books of Paradise was established in January of 1988. We operated a 'mom & pop' general used bookstore until June of 2011 when we closed our doors and "retired" to internet bookselling only. We specialize in used rare and out-of-print books, as well as local history books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.