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The Principles and Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning
by Holtzapffel, John Jacob
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
- ISBN 10
- 0486229653
- ISBN 13
- 9780486229652
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dover Publications, 1973. Second edition. Hardcover. vg. Ouarto. xxv, 656pp. Deep blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original dust jacket. Describes the art of ornamental and complex turning with a lathe. The author explicates the myriad of tools used in this art form; their function, history, variations and artistic results. Illustrated with 78 photographic reproductions and more than 600 in-text diagrams. DJ slightly creased with a few small closed tears. Book in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21624
- Title
- The Principles and Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning
- Author
- Holtzapffel, John Jacob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- ISBN 10
- 0486229653
- ISBN 13
- 9780486229652
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- decorative art, ornaments, British art, spiral turning. spherical rest
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...