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(The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature) , This Twelfth Volume.
by George Shaw and Frederick P. Nodder
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Nodder & Co.. Very Good. (1790-1813). Hardcover. 5 of the 48 plates show more pronounced degrees of offset from facing text page; several others have very faint offset, most are quite clean. There is offset from images to facing text pages, most obvious opposite the first 6 plates. Rubbing and wear to corners and edges with some wear through to boards at corner tips and front edges. Bottom and middle panel of spine leather with shadow of library labels; front pastedown shows stain and scuffing from plate removal. No other library marks or stamps; rear pastedown with a scuff and vertical 7"X3" area of tanning with offset to rear endpaper likely from library pocket. Save for the offset to some plates and facing pages, interior text pages and plates very clean. Binding tight. ; Contemporary red half-morocco, lettered & ruled in gilt and marbled paper over boards. Without title page as issued, two dedication pages, one in Latin the second in Latin. Illustrated with 48 hand colored plates showing birds, fish, insects, reptiles, etc. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages .
Details
- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11438
- Title
- (The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature) , This Twelfth Volume.
- Author
- George Shaw and Frederick P. Nodder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Nodder & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1790-1813)
- Keywords
- Natural History, NATURE, Illustrated Books, ZOOLOGY, ANIMALS, ORNITHOLOGY, Entomology, Reptiles, FISH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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About the Seller
G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
GRASS VALLEY, California
About G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
Full time bookseller since 1978.I check e-mail & phone queries frequently and endeavor to respond promptly.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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