An Elementary Treatise On Mechanics...for The Use Of The Students Of The University At Cambridge, New. England.
by Farrar, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf. Good+. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine and inner hinges supplied with cloth tape, text block clean and sound. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Uncut in publisher's boards, vii, 440p., 10 folding plates. **American Imprint #20489. Rink #816; 2nd state with errata. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33396
- Title
- An Elementary Treatise On Mechanics...for The Use Of The Students Of The University At Cambridge, New. England.
- Author
- Farrar, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hilliard & Metcalf
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1825
- Keywords
- Farm, A.i., Technology, Mechanics, Text Book, Harvard College, Antiquarian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technology;
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Janet & Henry Hurley
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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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....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
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