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Gauging Inspector, and Measurer's Assistant; Shewing the Most Common Errors in the Practice of Gauging, and How to Correct Them, with Tables, Shewing to Any One the Contents of Casks of Liquors and Various Other Solid Bodies
by Anthony, Daniel
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Providence, RI: Miller & Hutchins. Good with no dust jacket. 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Leather spine over marbled paper boards with soiling, heavy rubbing and bumped corners. Black title label on spine has legible gilt. Binding tight. Yellow edges. Foxing throughout. Mostly tables, with an introduction noting the problem of gauging volumes of bulged casks and the deceptions employed in the liquor trade. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 76 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Gauging Inspector, and Measurer's Assistant; Shewing the Most Common Errors in the Practice of Gauging, and How to Correct Them, with Tables, Shewing to Any One the Contents of Casks of Liquors and Various Other Solid Bodies
- Author
- Anthony, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Miller & Hutchins
- Place of Publication
- Providence, RI
- Date Published
- 1817
- Keywords
- Measurements, Gauging
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Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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