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Clavis Calendaria; or, a compendious analysis of the calendar: Illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes. Third edition.
by Brady, John
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- Hardcover
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. x, 404; [ii], 406 + 1 woodcut plate. Wood engravings and tables within pagination. Contemporary half brown morocco, red pebbled cloth boards, spines divided by raised bands, compartments bordered with double gilt rules and central gilt tool, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. One leaf torn and neatly repaired, another with blank corner torn away. Binding rubbed. Bookplate of T. Dawson Brodie to front pastedowns.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5849
- Title
- Clavis Calendaria; or, a compendious analysis of the calendar: Illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes. Third edition.
- Author
- Brady, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1815
- Keywords
- Science Reference
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McNaughtan's Bookshop
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About McNaughtan's Bookshop
Established in 1957, McNaughtan's Bookshop is the oldest surviving secondhand and antiquarian bookshop in Scotland. Located in the basement of a listed 1820s tenement building at the top of Edinburgh's Leith Walk, we are the only open shop in Edinburgh holding membership of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. We stock rare, antiquarian, and collectable books on all subjects, along with a substantial range of secondhand books for browsing. Our gallery space currently hosts Typewronger Books, offering new books and secondhand typewriters.
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Bookplate
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