Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments
by Turner, Gerard Lapos
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0856671703
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671708
- Seller
-
Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sotheby's, 1983. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sotheby's, 1983. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. pp320. Quarto. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine (fading). A chad from a holepunch appears attached to FEP. Illustrated with BW plates. Clearly used, but still VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10078
- Title
- Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments
- Author
- Turner, Gerard Lapos
- Format/Binding
- Book Book Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0856671703
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671708
- Publisher
- Sotheby's
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
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About the Seller
Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
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Matlock, Derbyshire
About Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB
Scarthin Books is based in a three-storey, 2000 sq.ft. shop overlooking the millpond which powered Arkwright's world's-first cotton mill in the hamlet of Scarthin in the village of Cromford, Derbyshire on the edge of England's first National Park, the Peak District. Our ABE list comprises only some of our more valuable, fragile or esoteric stock; our main business remains selling new, second-hand and antiquarian books and music over the counter to flesh-and-blood clients. We also house a home-cooking cafe, serving vegetarian (and some vegan and gluten-free) hot and cold dishes and refreshments. The cafe also hosts meetings of the Cafe Philosophique and Conversation Cafe and regular meetings of Amnesty International and Buddhist Meditation groups, as well as occasional book launches and other gigs. With nearly 100,000 titles in stock, we have since 1974 been evolving towards what a bookshop should really be like. You will feel very much at home here. Our hours are 9-6; 10-6 on Sundays (last cafe orders 5.15)and we close only on Christmas and Boxing Days. Our website www.scarthinbooks.com is also fun.
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- VG
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- 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....
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