Eighty years progress of the United States: A family record of American industry, energy and enterprise: showing the various channesl of industry and education. . . .
by [FLINT, Charles L., McCAY, C.F., MERRIAM, J.C., & KETTEL, Thomas P.]
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: L. Stebbins, 1869. Tall thick 8vo. xvi, [2], [19]-465, [15] pp., including publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp., illustrated title page, numerous steel-engraved plates, over 100 plates. Green publisher’s cloth, illustrated gilt vignette on front cover, gilt decorations & corners, gilt lettering on spine, marbled fore-edges of textblock (slight rubbing, very minor bumping to corners), still a VG bright copy, w/ former ownership signature on verso of ffep. First edition, early printing, of this excellent and well-illustrated work examining the technological, industrial, and economic progress of the United States through the Civil War. The work includes section on agriculture, cotton, sugar, steam engines, railroads, cotton & woolen manufacturing, silk industries, paper, fire arms, cutlery, hats, carriages, coaches, silver ware, leather, boots, choes, clocks, watches, fur trade, an extensive section on the sewing machine, and much more. Of interest is the section at the rear on hospitals, mental institutions, and prisons included at the end.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50220
- Title
- Eighty years progress of the United States: A family record of American industry, energy and enterprise: showing the various channesl of industry and education. . . .
- Author
- [FLINT, Charles L., McCAY, C.F., MERRIAM, J.C., & KETTEL, Thomas P.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L. Stebbins,
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT:
- Date Published
- 1869.
- Keywords
- Economic History, Banking, Business, Consumer History, Commerce, 19th-century Imprints, Engravings, Farming, Agriculture, Steam Engines, Engineering, Railroads, Statistics, Commerce, Cotton, Wool, Textiles, Silk, Paper, Fire arms, Firearms, Cutlery, Silve
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About Zephyr Used & Rare Books
We are an independent bookseller, established in 1994, who exhibit at numerous book fairs and antique shows throughout the year, including Christine Palmer Antique Expos in Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA, The Rose City Book & Paper Show in Portland, the Custer Antique Show in Spokane, the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, the Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair, the Pasadena Book & Paper Show, and others. We specialize in 19th-century imprints, Technical Books, History, Children's Literature, and much more. In addition we offer appraisals for insurance and tax purposes.
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- Vignette
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- Title Page
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- FFEP
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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