CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS OF THAT SCIENCE ARE FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED, AND ADAPTED TO THE COMPREHENSION OF YOUNG PUPILS: Improved by Appropriate Questions, for the Examination of Scholars; Also by Illustrative Notes,...
by Blake, Rev. J. L. [John Lauris]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair to Good/No Dust Jacket
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Lincoln, Edmands & Company, 1834. 276+pp. Original full-leather covers w/ gilt title on red leather spine label. Binding lightly scuffed w/ wear to extremities, still quite strong. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Light foxing throughout. Faint dampstains near inner hinge of first few leaves. Approx. 1" tear to bottom of plate 16, neatly repaired w/ archival tissue. Light chipping and tears to margins of plate 27. Lacks plate 4. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of "Variations of Day & Night, and the Seasons" and 26 plates in rear.. Hard Cover. Fair to Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 7371
- Title
- CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS OF THAT SCIENCE ARE FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED, AND ADAPTED TO THE COMPREHENSION OF YOUNG PUPILS: Improved by Appropriate Questions, for the Examination of Scholars; Also by Illustrative Notes,...
- Author
- Blake, Rev. J. L. [John Lauris]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Lincoln, Edmands & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1834
- Keywords
- SCIENCE PHYSICS ASTRONOMY NATURAL PHILOSOPHY RELIGION GOD CHRISTIANITY JESUS CHRIST PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS DICTIONARY DICTIONARIES REFERENCE GUIDE CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE LITERATURE CHILDREN STORIES NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Religion; Reference; Philosophy;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Jacket
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- Plate
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
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- 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...
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