Book Description
Artus, Dr. Wilibald. Hand-Atlas sammtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse... Jena 1876. Thick 8vo, 758pp, 114 hand-colored plates throughout. Volume 2 only. Half brown leather, gilt title, raised bands, bit bumped and rubbed but very sturdy. Internally very clean. Gorgeous color engraved plates of medicinal botanicals, quite simple, but sweet.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
raised band(s) : On leather bound books, the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine.
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
