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The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire & Rutland
by Browne, Montagu
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Birmingham and Leicester: Midland Educational Company, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited 1st edition of 300. 4to, xii + pp223 complete with coloured map frontis and 4 plates and fold-out chart plus approx 170 blank pages to rear for notes. Hard cover no dust jacket. Original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board in very good condition with some rubbing and shelf wear to top and tail of spine and tips and some small marks to boards. Inside all pages, with top edge gilt, and plates in very good clean condition with minimal foxing to end papers, back end paper loose starting to crack 160/161 but binding holding nicely.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000560
- Title
- The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire & Rutland
- Author
- Browne, Montagu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Midland Educational Company
- Place of Publication
- Birmingham and Leicester
- Date Published
- 1889
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- natural history
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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