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EARLY EDITIONS OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS
by Thomas-Stanford, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 091534629X
- ISBN 13
- 9780915346295
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of the 1926 first edition. Quarto. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67239
- Title
- EARLY EDITIONS OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS
- Author
- Thomas-Stanford, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 091534629X
- ISBN 13
- 9780915346295
- Publisher
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Mathematics, Euclid, Books on Books, Bibliography
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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