A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines; containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice (2 volumes)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. Hardcover. 3/4 brown leather with brown cloth; gilt lettering and decoration. Decorative end papers. Vol. I: 1118 pp.; Vol. II: 998 pp., both with bw frontis and occasional bw illustrations and plates. Heavy at 12 pounds (5.4 kilos) and will require extra postage.-+. Good+ clean, tight contents; covers solid but wearing at hinges/edges/corners; separation of end papers beginning at inner hinges, but bindings still tight. Foxing to title page, frontis, and first few pages of both volumes. Item #159275
Volume I published 1856; Volume II published 1857. Illustrated with nearly sixteen hundred engravings on wood.
OCLC: 6342941
Price: $125.00