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The Turner's Companion: Containing Instructions in Concentric, Elliptic, and Eccentric Turning; also Various Plates of Chucks, Tools, and Instruments; and Directions for Using the Eccentric Cutter, Drill, Vertical Cutter, and Circular Rest; with Patterns, and Instructions for Working Them.
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£52.43
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. 135pp + 32pp catalog; Black embossed cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, original decorated endpapers, boards bright, shiny & square, short tear to one foldout plate, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Classic guide to lathe turning. Illustrated with 14 plates, some foldout. Publisher's catalog in rear.
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- Book Happy Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012108
- Title
- The Turner's Companion: Containing Instructions in Concentric, Elliptic, and Eccentric Turning; also Various Plates of Chucks, Tools, and Instruments; and Directions for Using the Eccentric Cutter, Drill, Vertical Cutter, and Circular Rest; with Patterns, and Instructions for Working Them.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Henry Carey Baird & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- reference technical machines lathe instruments industrial
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- 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....
- VG
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- 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.
- Cloth
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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...
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