[Rarebooks] FS: Newly Added- 1841 Guide to Manufactures & Arts

Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA office at joslinhall.com
Wed Sep 20 10:09:26 EDT 2006


>From our newly released catalog-
RECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
<http://www.joslinhall.com/catalog_284.htm>
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Aikin, Arthur. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. Being a selection
from a series of papers read before the Society for the Encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

London; John Van Voorst: 1841.

Aikin, former Secretary of the Society, collected eleven papers, some
written by himself, including material on pottery, furs & the fur trade,
felting & hat-making, bone, horn, tortoiseshell & whalebone, the
antiquarian history of iron, the metallurgical history of iron, limestone
& cements, gypsum, engraving and etching, and paper. As part of an ongoing
project for the Society, the papers were completed between 1829 and 1838.

Hardcover. 4.5”x7”, vi + 376 pages, several text vignettes and diagrams;
publisher’s brown cloth with gilt pine title; cover with some soil, a
little wear; 19th century library bookplate; slight stain along upper
edges. Uncommon. [09488] $200.00

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