Plants of the Holy Land : with Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully Illustrated By Original Drawings, Colored from Nature [With Chromolithographs by T. Sinclair]
by Osborn, Rev Henry S. & Thomas Siclair (chromolithographs)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good. 1861. Morocco Leather. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages; 1861 J. B. Lippincott Company. HC full period morocco leather elaborately decorated with pictorial and lettered borders in blind and pictorial vignette in gilt to sides. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands; gilt titles and decorations tooled directly to leather at spine dulled. Front board and first two endpages detached at joint with old tape residue repair attempts in the gutters of the endpages. Illustrated with six tissue guarded chromolithographs by Thomas Sinclair after art by the author. Scattered light foxing to page stock; usual light toning to the white paper stock of the chromolithos. Very handsome and elaborate Victorian fine binding but with front board detached and needing some restoration. Mild edge wear to the first color plate. Good only .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49686
- Title
- Plants of the Holy Land : with Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully Illustrated By Original Drawings, Colored from Nature [With Chromolithographs by T. Sinclair]
- Author
- Osborn, Rev Henry S. & Thomas Siclair (chromolithographs)
- Format/Binding
- Morocco Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- color plate books;
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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