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Engineering Heritage Volume Two: Highlights from the History of Mechanical Engineering
by Semler, E. G. (Ed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Heinemann Educational, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 1st printing. 4to (287 x 212mm). Pp 170 illustrated in b&w throughout. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is a little rubbed at the edges. Traces of the removal of a label on the ffe and a neatly inked number suggest this might be an ex-library copy.
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- Seller
- The Glass Key
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 88738
- Title
- Engineering Heritage Volume Two: Highlights from the History of Mechanical Engineering
- Author
- Semler, E. G. (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann Educational
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technology;
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