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The Cornish Beam Engine
by BARTON, D. B
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1871060044
- ISBN 13
- 9781871060041
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Cornish Beam Engine
BARTON, D. B
ISBN: 9781871060041
Cornwall Books (Wheaton Publishers Limited), Exeter, 1989, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards light brown/gilt, appendices, illustrated title page in addition to 32 plates and more than 40 pen and ink drawings, 285 pp.
Boards clean and firm, neat signature on front free end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, pale dust staining to top edge of text block. Wrapper clean and crisp, gentle rubs to edges and corners, price not clipped.
LOCAL HISTORY, MINING, SOUTH WEST, CORNWALL, 'CORNISH BEAM', STEAM PUMP ENGINE, INNOVATION, DEVELOPMENT, USE, DECLINE, NOTABLE ENGINEERS AND ENGINES
46269 LOCAL HIST/MINING £31.50
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- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46269
- Title
- The Cornish Beam Engine
- Author
- BARTON, D. B
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1871060044
- ISBN 13
- 9781871060041
- Publisher
- Cornwall Books (Wheaton Publishers Limited)
- Place of Publication
- Exeter
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 285 pp
- Keywords
- LOCAL HISTORY, MINING, SOUTH WEST, CORNWALL, 'CORNISH BEAM', STEAM PUMP ENGINE, INNOVATION, DEVELOPMENT, USE, DECLINE, NOTABLE ENGINEERS AND ENGINES
- Bookseller catalogs
- LOCAL HIST;
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About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
Daisyroots Books can be found on Main Street, right in the heart of the Edwardian seaside town of Grange over Sands. Over 20,000 books in 3 rooms on 2 floors. Antiquarian, collectable and contemporary titles. Open Mon - Sat 9:30 - 4.30 www.daisyrootsbooks.co.uk
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG/VG
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
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