Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Fair. 1852. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding rubbed at extremities; backstrip badly chipped along front gutter; corners bumped; front hinge starting to crack, but still firm; leaf edges, paste-downs, endpapers foxed. ; No sketches this volume, save for 2 b&w plates of Chinese clocks at rear; bookplate on front paste-down from the "private library of Hugh T. Hanna".; 8vo; 519 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 37785
Title: 32nd Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No 102: Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1851: Arts and Manufactures (Mechanical Volume)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington, DC
Date Published: 1852
Keywords: 19th Century American Patent Drawings, American Patents in 1851, Technological Achievements
Bookseller catalogs: Technology, General;

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Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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...