A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures: From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Nineteenth Century
by Zupko, Ronald Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
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About This Item
University of Wisconsin Press. Used - Good. 1968. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xvi & 224 pp. Some shelf wear and chipping to dust jacket, heavy sunning to spine. Contents very sound. Good. (Subject: Reference).
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- Title
- A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures: From Anglo-Saxon Times to the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Zupko, Ronald Edward
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
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