MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, AND REGISTER OF INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS: TWO VOLUMES, JANUARY-JUNE AND JULY-DECEMBER 1833
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York "To give an impetus to this desire for useful information, as well as to afford an opportunity to those who would communicate their ideas of inventions and improvements, the Mechanics' Magazine was projected, and we have noe to congrtulate our subscribers on the completion of the first volume." Frontispiece of Benjamin Franklin and Eli Whitney. Volume I, 344 pp., Printed 1833; Volume II, 332 pp., Printed 1834; Appendix, 84 pp. Marbled boards with leather reinforced corners and joints. Cover boards completely separated from book. Missing spine. Cover corners, edges, faces and spine are scuffed and worn. Marbled endpapers. Ex. library with bookplate on front inside cover, stamp on free endpaper. Front pages are starting to separate from bottom at spine edge. Interior is browning and foxing throughout. Waviness to interior pages, some corners are dog-earred. Book in Fair condition. Scarce copy of early scientific magazines.. Boards. Fair. Illus. by Illustrated. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Bound Magazine.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006288
- Title
- MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, AND REGISTER OF INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS: TWO VOLUMES, JANUARY-JUNE AND JULY-DECEMBER 1833
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- American History, Mechanics, Science, Bound Magazine
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Bound Magazines;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled boards
- ...