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L'ART DU MENUISIER EN MEUBLES ET DE L'ÉBÉNISTE
by Mellet, François-Noël
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie De Fortic. Good+. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Title continues "contenant des notions sur les bois indigènes et exotiques, la description des meubles de toute espèce, la teinture des bois, le placage, la composition et l'application des vernis, la marqueterie, etc....Scarce first edition in contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards with bright gilt lettered black label. [xxxii, 414pp]. Text is intact & square. Illustrated with 15 folding engraved plates with diagrams. Plates are intact without tears. Internal & external hinges are tight. Leaves are clean & bright with light scattered foxing. Trace of the print is visible on opposite side of leaves. Spine head & corners rubbed with small loss . Carpentry. Cabinetmakers and cabinetmaking. Furniture. ; Folding b/w plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 414 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17680
- Title
- L'ART DU MENUISIER EN MEUBLES ET DE L'ÉBÉNISTE
- Author
- Mellet, François-Noël
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Librairie De Fortic
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1825
- Keywords
- Furniture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
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