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Elements of Geology
by Charles Lyell
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1838. First edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 12mo. [xix] (1) 543 pgs. Frontispiece color diagram of volcano and many black and white woodcuts throughout text. Rebound in brown leather with "The Society of Writers to the Signet" embossed stamp. 5 raised bands and red spine label. New endpapers, though the original are preserved. Smuding to foredge. Scratching to the leather. Elements was written as a supplement rather than an abridgement of Lyell's magnum opus, Principles of Geology.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10
- Title
- Elements of Geology
- Author
- Charles Lyell
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.