Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America
by Catherine Thuro
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1574320971
- ISBN 13
- 9781574320978
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Collector Books, 1999. Second edition. Hardcover. As New. Second edition. Hardcover. As new condition. 360 pages. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Index and bibliography. The updated and expanded edition of the author's encyclopedic reference work on kerosene lamps in North America. The work kerosene lamps from their introduction to the American home in the late 1850s until their gradual replacement by electric light beginning in the 1880s. New designs, however, were still being introduced into the 1930s to rural population not year raeched by electricity.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E22461
- Title
- Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America
- Author
- Catherine Thuro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- ISBN 10
- 1574320971
- ISBN 13
- 9781574320978
- Publisher
- Collector Books
- Place of Publication
- Paducah, Kentucky, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- antiques, oil, lamps, kerosene, era, north america, united states,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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