THE MYSTERY AND ART OF THE APOTHECARY
by C.J.S THOMPSON
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++-Near Fine/No jacket
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
NZ$1,231.11NZ$984.89
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About This Item
THE MYSTERY AND ART OF THE APOTHECARY by C.J.S THOMPSON- Illustrated- J. B. Lippincott- Philadelphia- 1929- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Hardcover:-8vo- VG++-Near Fine/ no jacket- Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine- tight, square and clean-moderate foxing on page edges. Otherwise 287 pages are clean, no writing or tears. Illustrated in b&w, in text and full page- SEE PHOTOS- An extremely scarce book- seemingly the only one available on the internet- A must for collectors of Potions-Alchemy-Pharmacopoeias.- Printed by Lippincott at the same time as the John Lane edition of the same year. Whereas the Lane edition is very difficult to find, the Lippincott edition is almost impossible to find.- Non-fiction- Pharmacy-History-Potions-Alchemy-Pharmacopoeias-illustrated 4933
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4933
- Title
- THE MYSTERY AND ART OF THE APOTHECARY
- Author
- C.J.S THOMPSON
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++-Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 287
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Non-fiction- Pharmacy-History-Potions-Alchemy-Pharmacopoeias-illustrated
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
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