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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Volume V.
by Blake, William P. (editor)
- Used
- Condition
- Contents VG, clean, crisp, and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1870. Leather bound. Contents VG, clean, crisp, and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are in excellent condition, as if never viewed, with no chips or tears.. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands. Maroon cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and volume number on spine. Marbled end papers and page edges. Paginated as 26; 19; 90 (with 5 bw folding plates); 19 (with 1 folding plate); 18; 13; 28; 213 (with 9 bw folding plates and several bw illustrations); 70; and 18. Contains articles on cereals, beet-root sugar and alcohol, Culture and Products of the Vine, school-houses and popular education, munitions of war, instruments and apparatus of medicine, and musical instruments.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162989
- Title
- Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Volume V.
- Author
- Blake, William P. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents VG, clean, crisp, and tight. Covers are a bit rubbed and with some staining to front cloth. The illustrated plates are
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington [DC]
- Date Published
- 1870
- Keywords
- Expositions and World's Fairs; Paris Universal Exposition 1867; ; Paris Universal Exposition 1867 ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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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...
- Edges
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- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Raised Band(s)
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