The Life of Major-General Peter Muhlenberg of the Revolutionary Army
by Muhlenberg, Henry A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1849. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and blindstamped decoration. Moderate edgewear with chipped/split spine ends, bumped corners with board showing, and light rubbing and soil. Binding sound, text clean. Interior toned and heavily foxed. Engraved frontis portrait with facsimile signature. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 456 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9803
- Title
- The Life of Major-General Peter Muhlenberg of the Revolutionary Army
- Author
- Muhlenberg, Henry A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Carey & Hart
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1849
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History / General;
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About the Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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