Recherches Sur Les Collemboles Et Les Thysanoures Victor Willem General Non-Fiction

1899. No Edition Remarks. 144 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound in leather with marbled paper covered boards. French text. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Spine covering is missing completely. Black and white plates. Stamp of entomologist H T Fernald to title page; his bookplate to front pastedown. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Heavy creases to many pages. Moderate cracking to gutters and rear hinge causing some noticeable looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with heavy tanning, chipping and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier staining and tanning with prominent loss and crushing to ends. Heavy bumping and bending to upper front corner.