Astrography, or The Heavens Displayed, On a New Plan
by Greig, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Datil, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed by W. Gilbert, 1810. Hardcover, [xvi], 224 pages, plus a 12-page catalogue of "Established School Books." Fair condition. Size 7"x4.25". Leather casing is heavily rubbed, and scuffed on extremities. Spine is replaced with cloth tape. Bookseller's and previous owner's (org) stamps & label on front endpapers. Three quarters of Plate I (frontispiece - Map of the Heavens) is missing, the remaining three plates are present. Text is rippled from aging/storage. Two leaves have closed tears, one signature is starting, and several places in the text have foxing or stains from pressed flowers.. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Florida Mountain Book Co. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008280
- Title
- Astrography, or The Heavens Displayed, On a New Plan
- Author
- Greig, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by W. Gilbert
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1810
- Keywords
- ASTRONOMY CONSTELLATIONS ZODIAC STARS MYTH MYTHOLOGY GREEK REFERENCE COLLECTIBLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Internet Listing;
Terms of Sale
Florida Mountain Book Co.
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About the Seller
Florida Mountain Book Co.
Biblio member since 2004
Datil, New Mexico
About Florida Mountain Book Co.
The Florida Mountains are located in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Parsons family, proprietors of Florida Mountain Book Company, have been in the book business since 1996. Formerly the owners & operators of Readers' Cove Bookstore in Deming, New Mexico, beginning in May of 2012, we are now exclusively based on the internet.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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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....
- Leaves
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...