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Lessons in Electricity At the Royal Institution, 1875-6
by Tyndall, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". x, 113pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Slight lean to spine. Age-toning and light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Bookplate from Emory University Academy Library to front paste-down. Non-sticky glue residue to front free endpaper. Previous owner's name in pencil to front endpaper and to title page. Front free endpaper is very loose and almost disconnected from text block. Occasional penciled notation to margins of pages. Notation does not obscure text. Light foxing to some pages throughout. Front hinge is cracked but binding remains intact.
A series of lectures on electricity delivered by the renowned physicist John Tyndall at London's Royal Institution in the mid-1870s, covering topics such as magnetism, static electricity, and the behavior of electrical currents.(Publisher).
A series of lectures on electricity delivered by the renowned physicist John Tyndall at London's Royal Institution in the mid-1870s, covering topics such as magnetism, static electricity, and the behavior of electrical currents.(Publisher).
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- Seller
- Underground Books, ABAA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 14136
- Title
- Lessons in Electricity At the Royal Institution, 1875-6
- Author
- Tyndall, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ex-Library
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1879
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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