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1795 EARLY USA BOOKPLATE Arts & Manufactures Physics
1795 EARLY USA BOOKPLATE Arts & Manufactures Physics
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1795 EARLY USA BOOKPLATE Arts & Manufactures Physics Experiments INVENTIONS



‘The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures’ is a rare late 18th-century collection of documents, correspondence, and letters, regarding patent inventions, philosophical societies, and mechanical engineering, and physics experiments.



This volume includes an early American book plate from the late 18th-century from the library of the late John Adam, a notable silversmith and painter in Virginia.



Item number: #9016

Price: $499



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The repertory of arts and manufactures.



London: printed for G. and T. Wilkie, and Robinson, 1795.



Details:

Collation: Volume 2

vii, 438

Lacking final pages of index

24 engraved plates

Provenance: Bookplate - John Adam’s Library, No. 61

John Adam (1774 - 1848) was a noted silversmith in Alexandria, Virginia. In addition, Adam was an amateur oil painter, and said to be a friend of Thomas Sully. Several metalworks and paintings attributed to Adam still survive.

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Visible repair at inner hinges

Size: ~8.5in X 5.25in (21.5cm x 13.5cm)



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