THE MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES
by Eissler, Manuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good; period half morocco and marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt, marbled enpapers; scuffing to joints, spine ribs and
- Seller
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Los Altos Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good; period half morocco and marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt, marbled enpapers; scuffing to joints, spine ribs and extremities; front free endpaper creased with inscription on verso dated Belleville 1935; small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown. 8.75 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches. Rather scarce first edition of this classic treatise on high explosives. Subtitled, Nitro-glycerine and dynamite: their manufacture, their use, and their application to mining and military engineering; pyroxyline, or gun-cotton; the fulminates, picrates, and chlorates. Also the chemistry and analysis of the elementary bodies which enter into the manufacture of the principal nitro-compounds; xi, [1], 395 + 9 ad pp.
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- Bookseller
- May Day Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 03943
- Title
- THE MODERN HIGH EXPLOSIVES
- Author
- Eissler, Manuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; period half morocco and marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt, marbled enpapers; scuffing to joints, spine ribs and
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- Misc
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sciences;
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
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About the Seller
May Day Books
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....