General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History Vol VIII, Part II (With Sondley Collection Bookplate)
by Shaw, George
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Kearsley, Wilkie and Robinson, 1812. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mrs. Griffith. Octavo. 557 pages. EX-LIBRARY copy with full markings, including a Sondley Collection (Asheville, NC) bookplate on the front pastedown. Hardcover quarter bound in leather with marbled paper covered boards. Binding is heavily rubbed. Headcap has a .75 inch wide and .5 inch tall chip missing. Five raised spine bands. Gilt decorations on spine. White lettering at foot of spine. Edges of text block are marbled. Marbled endpapers. Sondley Reference Library bookplate on front pastedown. Writing on reverse of front flyleaf. A number stamped on the reverse of the title page. There is a Sondley Library blind stamp on some pages. Text is toned, has some foxing. Illustrations throughout. A 1932 notation on the verso of the front flyleaf notes that this volume has 39 plates. Another notation beneath this states that a prior owner paid $150 for this book in 1989. F. A. Sondley was a book collector in Asheville, NC who donated his extensive antiquarian collection to the Asheville Library.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 049012
- Title
- General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History Vol VIII, Part II (With Sondley Collection Bookplate)
- Author
- Shaw, George
- Illustrator
- Mrs. Griffith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kearsley, Wilkie and Robinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1812
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1812; 1811; George Shaw; Zoology; Natural History; Sondley; F. A. Sondley; Antiquarian; Leather Binding; Engravings; Woodcuts; Illustrated; birds; Bookplate; Sondley Collection; Asheville; Plates.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; General Antiquarian & Rare; Birds;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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