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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air.
by Priestley, Joseph
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. Johnson, No 72, St Paul's Church-Yard. Good+ with no dust jacket. M.DCC.LXXXI (1781). Third, corrected. Hardback. Brown leather spine (rebacked) + boards; somewhat worn and marked; corners worn; front and rear joints very slightly exposed, but binding otherwise tight. Gilt titling + decoration on spine still quite bright. pp quite supple, and unmarked. Bookplate on front pastedown; owner's name on front endpaper. Fold-out plates at front and rear -- plate at front has lightly worn edges, but the illustration is unaffected (see photos).; xxiii + 324 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42640
- Title
- Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air.
- Author
- Priestley, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Third, corrected
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. Johnson, No 72, St Paul's Church-Yard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- M.DCC.LXXXI (1781)
- Keywords
- oxygen, phlogiston, lavoisier, hydrogen
Terms of Sale
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Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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