- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: M6250
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: 1
- Place: [Italy]:
- Date published: 1-1963
Book Description
[Italy]:: 1. 1-1963. paperback. 2. 8vo. (421)-431; [ii], 57 pp. 5 plates; 3 plates, bibliog. Printed wrappers; 1 with 2 holes punched along spine. Ownership rubber stamps on top covers. Very good. . One essay on a Sicilian materia medica and another on the introduction of the lemon to Italy.
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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. Also known as the back.
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.
