Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
by Iles, George (editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Co,. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Pub. 1902, presumed first ed.--earlier copyrights on verso of t.p. acknowledge previously pub. portions; 171 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only mildly age-toned; printed label on front paste reads "LIBRARY OF HARRY S. ZIMMERMAN No. 460 Price sn;" frontis. engraving of Christopher Columbus has tissue guard; front gutter cracked but binding firm; in absence of d.j. unfaded red boards with bright gilt lettering on spine and stamped colophon on front have lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine. 4" x 6".yh T.O.C.: "Columbus Discovers America" by Justin Winsor; "Arrival at the Pacific Ocean, 1805" by Lewis and Clarke; "The Sources of the Mississippi, 1806" by Zebulon M. Pike; "Manila in 1842" by Charles Wilkes; "The Ascent of Mount Tyndall" by Clarence King; "The Grand Canon of the Colorado is Explored" by John Wesley Powell.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Harper Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 092130
- Title
- Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
- Author
- Iles, George (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co,
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Robert Harper Books LLC
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Hyattsville, Maryland
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 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...
- 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,...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.