KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. By Charles Knight. Revised and Edited, with Additions, by David A. Wells, A.M. ... Illustrated with Numerous Engravings
by Knight, Charles
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- first
- Condition
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856.. 1856.. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with blind-stamped decorations in blind on the covers. The covers are rubbed and soiled with wear to the corners. The head of the spine is heavily chipped with a quarter inch of the cloth having perished. There is a 2 inch split to the cloth along the middle of the rear joint with some corresponding chips to the spine. iv & 503 pages plus a 24-page publisher's catalog, illustrated with numerous textual engravings. A previous owner's name is stamped at the top of the front endpaper and title page. Lacking the half-title, there is a piece torn from the bottom front corner of the title and the first page, not affecting the text. A good working copy. <p>First American edition.<p>Includes much on American trade, including the economic needs of the American Indians, the Hudson's Bay Indians and thus the Hudson's Bay Company, the effects of slavery on production, cotton manufacture leading up to the cotton-gin and the progress of cotton manufacture in America, etc., etc., etc.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9625
- Title
- KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. By Charles Knight. Revised and Edited, with Additions, by David A. Wells, A.M. ... Illustrated with Numerous Engravings
- Author
- Knight, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1856.
- Date Published
- 1856.
- Keywords
- ECONOMICS; AMERICANA; HISTORY; CHARLES KNIGHT; DAVID WELLS; CAPITAL; KNOWLEDGE IS POWER; NINETEENTH-CENTURY; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST; 19TH CENTURY; LABOR; SKILL; MONEY; POLITICAL ECONOMICS; PHILOSOPHY; ILLUSTRATIONS; ENGRAVINGS; HUDSON'S BAY COMPA
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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