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Glance at the Physical Sciences, A; or The Wonders of Nature, in Earth, Air, and Sky: By the author of Peter Parley's Tales (Parley's Cabinet Library)
by Goodrich, Samuel G
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co., 1844. 1st thus. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 352 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, many b&w text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, text illustrations have a pencilled number by them starting at 315 on the frontis to 348 on page 141 where the lettering stops for the rest if the book. Covers show mottling, discoloration to fore-edges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight. Record # 411478
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 411478
- Title
- Glance at the Physical Sciences, A; or The Wonders of Nature, in Earth, Air, and Sky: By the author of Peter Parley's Tales (Parley's Cabinet Library)
- Author
- Goodrich, Samuel G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- Bradbury Soden & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1844
- Keywords
- History, Sciences, 1st thus, , .
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Title Page
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- 1st Thus
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- Spine
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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
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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