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The Cabinet of Useful Arts & Manufactures; Designed for the Perusal of Young Persons
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sisters, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Dublin: Christopher Bentham, 19 Eustace-street, 1820. First Edition. Half leather. 12mo. (3-1/4"x5"), 180 pp., original 1/2 leather & boards, nine wood engravings plus tailpieces, lacks the frontispiece. -- Front hinge cracked, text block sound, binding worn. Child's pencil drawings at page 119. Pencil scribbling inside front and rear covers. -- Rare First Edition. -- Overall Condition about Good minus.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lonesome Water Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10009
- Title
- The Cabinet of Useful Arts & Manufactures; Designed for the Perusal of Young Persons
- Format/Binding
- Half leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Christopher Bentham, 19 Eustace-street
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- Antiquarian Books, Nonfiction, Juvenile, Children's Books, Manufacturing trades, glass, porcelain, linen, rope-making, wool, silk, hats, leather, paper, sugar, salt, useful arts, printing calico, founding type, letterpress printing, book binding. br
Terms of Sale
Lonesome Water Books
We accept: Most Credit Cards, Paypal. Payment in U.S. Currency Only. If you would like to order direct call 541-719-8216. 11am-5pm Pacific Time. Returnable for any reason within 14 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Lonesome Water Books
Biblio member since 2003
Sisters, Oregon
About Lonesome Water Books
We are a brick and mortar store located in Beautiful Sisters, Oregon. We have a stock of approximately 10,000 books, 80 percent of which are hardbound. We also carry old prints (decorative and original) and maps.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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