Elementi di Chimica Rurale [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry]
by Humphry Davy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Giovanni de Bonis, Napoli, 1815. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. A very nice copy of this original Italian translation of Davy's 1813 work. Note: the illustrations are not the same as the original English edition. Octavo, 8" tall, (two volumes bound in one), vol. 1: xvi + 228 + 1 folding plate; vol. 2: 7 plates (2 folding) + 243 pages, gilt spine titles and decorations on quarter blue calf over marbled boards. A very good, clean, neat original hard cover with minor exterior wear and rubbing, binding tight, paper supple and cream white with very little foxing. Please note: shipping overseas is currently high.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53831
- Title
- Elementi di Chimica Rurale [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry]
- Author
- Humphry Davy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Giovanni de Bonis, Napoli
- Date Published
- 1815
- Keywords
- Chemistry, Natural History, Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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