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Madeira Meteorologic: Being a paper on the above subject read before the Royal Society, Edinburgh, on the 1st of May, 1882
by C. Piazzi Smyth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. Very Good-. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (21.5cm.); publisher's red cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, blue-green glazed endpapers; viii,83pp.; lithographic frontispiece and one additional plate, two small woodcuts in text. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities, most notably at spine ends, sizing spotted, especially to rear cover, spine quite sunned, preliminaries foxed, else a Good to Very Good copy, contents mostly clean and sound.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26052
- Title
- Madeira Meteorologic: Being a paper on the above subject read before the Royal Society, Edinburgh, on the 1st of May, 1882
- Author
- C. Piazzi Smyth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David Douglas
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1882
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About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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- Quarto
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- Plate
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- Gilt
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