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Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes
by Hibbert, Samuel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1825. Stated second edition, 1825. Illustrated with an engraved plate and folding table (complete per binder instructions). Rebound ca. 1950s in red cloth with paper spine label, top edge gilt, 475 pages. Externally about fine, binding sound, some minor separation showing between the newer endpapers and text block, pages very clean with faint old transparent stains confined to the upper margins of a handful of pages, no foxing, no names or other markings.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038452
- Title
- Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes
- Author
- Hibbert, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Oliver & Boyd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1825
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- APPARITIONS GHOSTS SPIRITS ILLUSIONS PHANTASMS SPECTRAL SUPERSTITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- UFOs, Paranormal & Unexplained;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
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- Text Block
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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.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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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