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NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
by Turner, Gerard L'E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0856671703
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671708
- Seller
-
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London; Sotheby Publications, 1983., 1983. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. 320 pp. Illustrated with over 440 plates including 30 in colour of examples from European collections and contemporary engravings providing a unique aid to identification and an invaluable reference for collectors and historians. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original brown cloth with gilt titles in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear to jacket otherwise a clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1913
- Title
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- Author
- Turner, Gerard L'E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0856671703
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671708
- Publisher
- London; Sotheby Publications, 1983.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Antiques & Collecting
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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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