AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIGONOMETRICAL OPERATION WHEREBY THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE MERIDIANS OF THE OBSERVATORIES OF GREENWICH AND PARIS HAS BEEN DETERMINED
by Roy, Major General William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full brown calf, edges rubbed, hinges reinforced with black cloth tape, marbled boards, bookplate of Joseph Smith, 4 folding tables, 11 folding large plates all intact and unfoxed. Text block very good, clean and tight. Scarce! ; 10.5" x 9"; 162 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18600
- Title
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIGONOMETRICAL OPERATION WHEREBY THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE MERIDIANS OF THE OBSERVATORIES OF GREENWICH AND PARIS HAS BEEN DETERMINED
- Author
- Roy, Major General William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1790
- Keywords
- Antiquarian, First Edition, Reference
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Nanaimo, British Columbia
About Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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