ON THE ECONOMY OF MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES
by Babbage, Charles
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Charles Knight, 1832 Enlarged Second Edition. pp xxiv 387 plus 1 page of works by the same author. Illustrated with tables in the text. Half-Bound with leather spine and corners and marbled boards. Spine with bands of gilt lining. Title label missing from spine but the impressed letters are visible. Marbled paper is rubbed and there are pieces missing from rear edge. Grey paper endpapers. Title page is a bit grubby and has 5mm cropped from top edge and some light staining to near bottom edge and top corner and fore edge. Some discolouration to dedication page and some light browning to fore edge and to a lesser extent light staining to upper half of fore edge of first 2 leaves of preface. Verso of rear endpaper and adjacent blank endpaper spotted and stained and publishers advert page a little grubby. Otherwise pages are clean and tightly bound.
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- Bookseller
- C & J Read
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021010
- Title
- ON THE ECONOMY OF MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES
- Author
- Babbage, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Knight
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Keywords
- Science, Mechanics
Terms of Sale
C & J Read
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About the Seller
C & J Read
Biblio member since 2005
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
About C & J Read
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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