PERILS AND PLEASURES OF A HUNTER'S LIFE; or the ROMANCE OF HUNTING
by Herne, Peregrine f1a
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book. Orig embossed red boards. 1st ed.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Phila: Bradley. VG book. Orig embossed red boards. 1st ed.. 1854. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book. Brilliantly colored frontis, tp and 9 full page tissue guarded plates. Spine with title & floral decorations in gilt. . Upper board with gilt Indian brandishing rifle & tomahawk. Flaws: (1) extrems with minor wear. (2) spine ends worn & lower rear gutter line torn 1", (3) light to moderate text foxing, BUT NO PLATE FOXING. (4) light water stain on top edge margin of pp180-300. Hunting in N & S AM, Africa & India. Both boards deeply & identically embossed with four edge rules with floral corners. Elaborate floral design just inside with Indian at center. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001586
- Title
- PERILS AND PLEASURES OF A HUNTER'S LIFE; or the ROMANCE OF HUNTING
- Author
- Herne, Peregrine f1a
- Illustrator
- Hand col frontis tp & 9 plts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. Orig embossed red boards. 1st ed.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Bradley
- Place of Publication
- Phila
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- VG book. Brilliantly colored frontis, tp and 9 full page tissue, guarded plates. Spine with title & floral decorations in gilt., bf
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...