Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews
by John Tyndall
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York : D. Appleton and Co, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Shelf wear. Head of spine chipped with fraying. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. <br><br> From the library of William J. Starr with book plate on verso.
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- SequiturBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2103250062
- Title
- Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews
- Author
- John Tyndall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York : D. Appleton and Co
- Date Published
- 1872
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...