RECREATIONS IN ASTRONOMY: With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
by Warren, Henry White
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York/Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt/Hitchcock & Walden, 1879. 284+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed. Corners and spine ends bumped. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste-down. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ 83 illustrations and maps of the stars. . Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17615SC
- Title
- RECREATIONS IN ASTRONOMY: With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
- Author
- Warren, Henry White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Phillips & Hunt/Hitchcock & Walden
- Place of Publication
- New York/Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- SCIENCE S ASTRONOMY STARS HEAVENLY BODIES TELESCOPIC WORK TELESCOPE EXPERIMENTS ASTROLOGY SKY CELESTIAL OBJECTS
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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