Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Scuffing and edgewear to dj, including chipping at spine ends; sunning to spine. Jacket now protected in acetate wrapper. Slight shelf wear to boards. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Expected age-toning to text block edges. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: History of Science).

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Bookseller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: S77986
Title: The History of the Barometer (Johns Hopkins, 1964)
Author: W.E. Knowles Middleton
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
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...
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...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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....
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...