New Fragments
by Tyndall, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1892. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 500pp. 3 / 4 leather with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and marbled boards. Notes. The covers are edgeworn with rubbing at the corners and spine, the endpapers are toned at the edges, and there is minor pencil notation in the text at pages 30-31. "In the opening words of a Lecture delivered in this city four years ago, I spoke of the desire and tendency of the present age to connect itself organically with preceding ages. The expression of this desire is not limited to the connection of the material organisms of to-day with those of the geologic past, as set forth in the doctrines of Mr. Darwin" - from "The Sabbath". (Ideas, Essays, Lectures).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150364
- Title
- New Fragments
- Author
- Tyndall, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Ideas, Essays, Lectures, Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
Terms of Sale
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.