The Vegetable World: Being A History of Plants, with Their Structure and Peculier Properties. Adapted from the Work of Louis Figuier. With a Glossary of Botanical Terms
por Figuier, Louis
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Livreiro
-
Chico, California, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London, Petter, Galpin & Co.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880. Louis Figuier (1819-1894) abandoned research to write popular science books such as this, an interesting book, and uncommon. There is no publication date; Quercus assumes it to be circa 1880. Brown decorative cloth binding; stamped and filled in black on the front cover; black and gilt on the spine. Clean text; viii, 583 pages, with four pages of the publisher's adverts in the rear. With 473 great black-and-white illustrations. Bookplate of the illustrator J.Carl Pehl (1872-1959) on the front paste-down. The FFEP is missing; lightly rubbed at the margins. Sound and quite attractive. . First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 004272
- Título
- The Vegetable World: Being A History of Plants, with Their Structure and Peculier Properties. Adapted from the Work of Louis Figuier. With a Glossary of Botanical Terms
- Autor
- Figuier, Louis
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good (Plus)
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No Jacket
- Edição
- First Thus
- Editorial
- Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
- Local de publicação
- London, Petter, Galpin & Co.
- Data de publicação
- 1880
- Dimensão
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Science;
Termos da venda
Quercus Rare Books
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Sobre o Vendedor
Quercus Rare Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2006
Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
