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The Dispensatory of the United States of America
by Wood, George B. and Franklin Bache
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot. Fair. 1836. 3rd Edition, Enlarged and Carefully Corrected. Hardcover. Banded, brown full leather binding with red & black leather backstrip labels rubbed at extremities; corners frayed; backstrip repaired/reinforced with brown cloth tape; number inked near spine head; boards & backstrip scuffed; cracked hinges repaired with stitched-in white cloth tape; various owners' names & gift inscription inked/pencilled/stamped on front paste-down & front endpaper; pharmaceutical notes & stray drawings inked/pencilled on rear endpaper & back paste-down; a few outer leaves bent/chipped at corner tips; leaf edges, endpapers foxed. ; B&w ils.; originally published, 1833.; 8vo; 1171 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37496
- Title
- The Dispensatory of the United States of America
- Author
- Wood, George B. and Franklin Bache
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- 3rd Edition, Enlarged and Carefully Corrected
- Publisher
- Grigg & Elliot
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- 19th Century Medical Reference, Pharmaceutical Reference, Medicinal Formula
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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