King's Hand-Book of Boston
by King, Moses
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Mansfield Center, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Moses King Publishers. 1879. -; Second Printing. Very Good-; Hardcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages, plus ad section; bound in brown cloth with beveled edges; elaborate gilt & black stamping. Well-illustrated. Crisp two page map of Boston designed expressly for the Hoosac Tunnel Route. Deatailed compendium describing streets, bridges, railroads, steamships, wharves, hotels, restaurants, government buildings, libraries, musical societies, scientific institutions,publishers, printers, bookstores, churches, charitable organizations, homes and asylums, playhouses, secret societies, insurance companies, banks, trade exchanges, merchants, and manufacturers. Clean cover with fraying & wear to card at bottom corners; shallow chipping at spine ends. Gilt bright & intact. Firm binding, seam at front end paper showing some wear. Interior overall clean, a few spots of soil; no names or markings in text. Packaged with care and shipped in a box.; Packaged with care. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount Hope Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22886
- Title
- King's Hand-Book of Boston
- Author
- King, Moses
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- -; Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Moses King Publishers
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- Boston Massachusetts, Boston history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana: New England;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...