James Nasmyth, Engineer - An Autobiography
by NASMYTH, JAMES & SMILES, SAMUEL (ed.)
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About This Item
John Murray 1883. octavo hardcover, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decorative rule and motif stamped on front board, decorative rule tooling to read board, frontispiece, postcard stuck to front and rear pastedown, xviii + 456pp., VG- (heavy scuffing and brusing to board and spine extrems, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate creasing to hinges, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate splitting to gutters, moderate tanning to page interiors)
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- Title
- James Nasmyth, Engineer - An Autobiography
- Author
- NASMYTH, JAMES & SMILES, SAMUEL (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray 1883
- Keywords
- autobiography memoir history engineering
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- Gilt
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