Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris
by FERGUSON, John
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1906.. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, xxi, (iii), 487, (1); (iv), 598, (2) pp. Portrait frontispieces, some light foxing to endpapers, inscribed from Ferguson on the fly leaf of volume I. Partly unopened in the original buckram, spines slightly dull and rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18254
- Title
- Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris
- Author
- FERGUSON, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
- Date Published
- 1906.
- Keywords
- Natural History
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lewes, East Sussex
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...