The arts of tanning, currying, and leather-dressing; theoretically and practically considered in all their details. Edited from the French of J. De Fontenelle and F. Malepeyre, with numerous emendations and additions, by Campbell Morfit, practical and analytical chemist, author of "applied chemistry," "chemical and pharmaceutic manipulations," etc.

Morfit, Campbell (editor and translator)

Verlag: Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia, 1852

Beschreibung

First edition, large 8vo, pp. [5], vi-xv, [2], 18-557, [3], 16 ads; lithographic portrait frontispiece; illustrated with 200 wood engravings in the text; original blind-stamped brown cloth with a gilt vignette of a man washing a hide; gilt spine lettering with an illustration of a man tawing leather; front free endpaper torn with 3½" x 2½" piece missing; cloth of front joint splitting near head; spine extremities chipped; covers rubbed; some foxing; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of the Salem Mechanic Library on front pastedown with deaccession stamp marked 1967; library stamp on the title page and p. 123. Edited from the French of J. de Fontenelle and F. Malepeyre, with numerous emendations and additions, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 57642

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The arts of tanning, currying, and ...

Verlag: Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage