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The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass.
by Dionysius Lardner; G R Porter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832.. 12mo. 334 pp. Hard Covers. Good. Brown cloth covered boards. Some shelf wear and bumped corners. Covering over spine is missing. End papers foxed and foxing around frontispiece engraving, else pages fine. Previous owner’s name on half title page.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18-8351
- Title
- The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass.
- Author
- Dionysius Lardner; G R Porter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Payment by credit cards or other means. 20% charge for returns,unless item is misdescribed.
About the Seller
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Biblio member since 2006
San Francisco, California
About Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
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