HAND-BOOKS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY. Third Course. Meteorology-Astronomy. With Thirty-Seven Plates, and Upwards of Two Hundred Illustrations on Wood.
by Lardner, Dionysius; Civil War Ownership
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(T. K. and P. G. Collins for) Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia: 1854., 1854 pp. xxx, 25-768, 12 [Publisher's catalogue] + Plus folding telescopic chart frontis of the Eastern Quadrant of the Moon's Disk by M. M. Beer & Madler, broken at folds, Plus numerous full page plates including Halley's Comet of 1835, Solar Spots, Moon, Planets, etc. Numerous text woodcuts. Civil War Era Bookplate of Rev. Benj. D. Zweizig, Evangelical Lutheran Church. Penciled ownership of Daniel R. Miller, Pinegrove, Pa. and Charles R. Muhlenberg, Lancaster, PA., Lieut. 5th U.S. Battery A. Artillery 24th Army Corps, 3rd Div. Burnside's Corps, Antietam. Also W. Murray Friedman. Some signatures loose. 8vo. Original full leather binding. Lacks spine label but still presentable. Front board fragile. Hardbound. Documented Civil War ownerships on books of this sort are extremely scarce, PA72 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.
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- Title
- HAND-BOOKS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY. Third Course. Meteorology-Astronomy. With Thirty-Seven Plates, and Upwards of Two Hundred Illustrations on Wood.
- Author
- Lardner, Dionysius; Civil War Ownership
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- (T. K. and P. G. Collins for) Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia: 1854.
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- EDUCATION; SCHOOL; STUDENTS; TEACHERS; AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK; DIONYSIUS LARD NER; NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; ASTRONOMY; METEOROLOGY; HISTORY; 1854; ILLUSTRATIO NS; ZWEIZIG; MUHLENBERG; FRIEDMAN CIVIL WAR
- Bookseller catalogs
- CIVIL WAR; SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY;
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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