[Rarebooks] FS: 1868 Victorian Dictionary of Arts, Maufactures & Mining

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines; containing a Clear
Exposition of their Principles and Practice"

By Andrew Ure.
Published in New York by D. Appleton in 1868. Corrected and Greatly
Enlarged edition.

DISCUSSION: One of the great compendiums of manufacture of the 19th
century, first published in 1839 and enlarged and updated a number of
times. From amber and alabaster through brass, brick and bread, calico
printing, cutlery, gas-light, glass-making, gunpowder, ice production,
leather, pickles, silver, soap and tea, to white lead, wheeled carriages
and wine, almost everything you can think of, any many things you wouldn’t
have thought of, are here.

Andrew Ure [1778-1857] was a professor of chemistry who also worked for
the British government and several private companies. He authored a number
of important books on chemistry and manufactures, of which his
“Dictionary” was the culminating title.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 2 volumes. 7.5”x10”, xiv + 1,118 + 998 pages;
“with nearly 1600 engravings on wood”.

CONDITION NOTES: Publisher’s pink pebbled cloth, rebacked and with new
endpapers; spines sunned; faint name stamps on the title pages; overall a
nice, clean, tight and fresh set.

PRICE: $400.00

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