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The Vertebrate Fauna of 'Dee'
by George Sim
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Aberdeen: D.Wyllie & Son, 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp295 with the Ichthyological Portion Including the Fishes of the East Coast from Wick to Firth of Forth. complete with 8 b/w illustrations, 3 in the text and 5 full page with tissue guards all in very good condition. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original green buckram binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top and tail of spine and small scratch and mark to front board. Inside all pages with top edge gilt in very good clean condition with a little foxing to front free end paper. Spine has been opened a little too vigorously to pp109 but binding holding as normal. For added interest the book plate of William Eagle Clarke, the noted ornithologist is on the front paste down. A very nice copy with an interesting provenance.
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- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000960
- Title
- The Vertebrate Fauna of 'Dee'
- Author
- George Sim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- D.Wyllie & Son
- Place of Publication
- Aberdeen
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Scottish Interest / Natural History
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Nikki Green Books
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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
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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