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Wild Flowers of the Holy Land
by Zeller, Hannah; H. B. Tristram (Preface); Edward Atkinson (Introduction)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: James Nisbet and Co, 1876. Second edition. Hardcover. fair. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gold and black-stamped cloth. All edges gilt. Remarkable work compiling fifty-four stunning color plates of wild flowers of the Holy Land, drawn and painted after nature. Each illustration is captioned in English, French, German and Latin. All plates with tissue-guard. Spine rebacked. Heavy rubbing with moderate abrasion along edges. Corners bumped and rubbed (not affecting pages). Boards discolored and soiled. Back cover damp stained. Minor age toning along paper margin. Tissue guard of first plate creased and slightly chipped along edges. Text pages missing (Preface and Introduction). Binding in overall poor to fair, interior in good+, plates in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31671
- Title
- Wild Flowers of the Holy Land
- Author
- Zeller, Hannah; H. B. Tristram (Preface); Edward Atkinson (Introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- James Nisbet and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- Flowers of the Holy Land, Botanics, Color plates, Illustrated, Reference, science, natural history
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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