Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Covers have moderate shelf wear, bottom edge faded, corners and spine ends worn, browned area on front endpapers from an early news clipping, binding tight, pages very good, in price clipped, browned and worn jacket, taped at spine ends, now in protective Brodart cover. He made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U. S. Coast Survey and was the first president of Girard College. . Very Good-. Hardcover. 1947.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 058339
Title: Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist and Educator 1806-1867
Author: Odgers, Merle M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Jacket Condition: Good- (Good)
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date Published: 1947
Keywords: ALEXANDER BACHE; SCIENCE; OCEANOGRAPHY; COAST SURVEY; AMERICAN HISTORY; AMERICANA; PHILADELPIA; GIRARD COLLEGE; EDUCATION

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We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...