On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
by Babbage, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1832. Hardcover. Recased in original boards. Some staining and rubbing to boards. Front free endpaper replaced. Dampstain and tidemark to upper 15mm margin of leaves in first two gatherings. Small burn mark to 5mm margin of last few leaves. ; First US edition. xix, [1], (15)-282 pages + [36] pages advertisements. Recased in original cloth boards with printed paper spine label. Page dimensions: 170 x 99mm.; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6199
- Title
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Author
- Babbage, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Carey & Lea
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1832
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....