- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 7625
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Verlag August Scherl,
- Place: Berlin:
- Date published: 1928.
Book Description
Berlin:: Verlag August Scherl,. 1928.. Hardcover. [The American Voyage of the Graf Zeppelin]. Travel notes from a trans- Atlantic voyage from Germany to the USA aboard a giant hydrogen-filled balloon. 8vo, 115pp, 5pp, b&w plates. German text. Orig. red cloth, gilt lettering, stain in lower margin p60 o/w vgc. In German.
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gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
