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Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New Leather Spine retaining the original label. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is strong. In good condition considering the age of the book, 1852. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
George Dodd. The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences. George Routledge & Co., 1852.
Price: US$444.37 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1852. No Edition Remarks. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Missing front free endpaper. Book has a slightly dusty odour. A numbered sticker to spine and wax spots where plate once stuck to front pastedown, but no other potential library markings. Light water staining, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and title pages, as well as rear free endpaper. Red wax blobs and paper traces to front pastedown. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Text block edges marked. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with some water staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Moderate splitting and fraying to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sticker to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$563.68 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 22cm, c.[320]pp., original blind decorated green cloth over boards, title & contents label in frame border laid down on the upper cloth, tight back plain cloth spine, a few dust soiling marks in the text, binding bit worn on the edges, hinges bit shaken but sound, library bookplate on the front endpapers partially removed, very good condition, Scarce. ~ A series of essays on the manufacturing industry by English journalist, George Dodd (1808 1881). Subjects include: glass, iron, wood, calculating machines, india rubber & gutta percha, electricity, gold, paper, printing, cotton & flax, corn & bread, ships, fire & light, wool & silk, steam & water power. George Dodd is best remembered for his book "The Food of London"
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An uncommon publication, of twelve articles from George Dodd's 'Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations'. This issue contains twelve articles under the title 'Dodd's Curiosities of Industry' and was issued under H Lea's imprint. This particular copy is lacking the title page, although collation matches the Lea publication. In the same year Routledge issued a copy containing sixteen of the articles, under the title 'The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences'. First edition thus, the first edition of this collected issue. This twelve chapter issue is scarcer than the sixteen chapter issue. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" contains an account of Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Comprising of: Glass and Its Manufacture Iron and Its Manufacture Calculating and Registering Machines India Rubber and Gutta Percha Industrial Applications of Electricity Gold Paper Printing Its Modern Varieties Corn and Bread What they Owe to Machinery A Ship in the Nineteenth Century Fire and Light Wool and Silk, Fur and Feathers The chapters to this work were originally issued separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with loss to the head and tail of spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Prior owner's bibliographic notes to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages 3-20 of 'Gold' is loosening. Pages are bright. Chips to edge of page 21 to 'Wool and Silk'. Pages are very clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Dodd, George. Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences. Routledge, London, 1852.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth covered boards with intaglio border, spine lettering faded, spine cloth chipped at head and tail and corner tips, one spot - overall good+ or better; text has very small book label (Burndy Library) no library markings; very light, occasional spotting, overall very good+ to near fine; 15 articles, 24 pps, each, 1 article 20 pps., calculating and registering machines, glass manufacture, india rubber, gutta percher, gold mining, et cetera
Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Dodd, George. The curiosities of industry and the applied sciences. Routledge, London, 1852.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Dodd, George (1801-81). The curiosities of industry and the applied sciences. 8vo. [4], 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 20pp. London: George Routledge & Co., 1852. 220 x 141 mm. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, lightly worn at extremities. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine. Early owner's name on front endpaper. Bookplate and stamp of the Royal Society of Arts Library. Second and more complete edition. A collection of papers on various British industries, originally issued in parts, intended as a supplement to the Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations published by Charles Knight in 1851. The work was first issued under the title Dodd's Curiosities of Industry (London: H. Lea, [1852?]); the earlier version contains only 12 papers to the present version's 16. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" (present in both versions) contains an account of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Other papers describe the manufacture and/or industrial uses of glass, wood, iron, electricity, paper, gold, textiles, etc. Origins of Cyberspace 70. .
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.