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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
de Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Original green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (BAL binding A). Spine sunned and edge-worn
- Librería
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New York, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the imprint, and with the illustrated title-page. Ads printed at front and rear endpapers. With 8 plates by Hoppin. 373 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (BAL binding A). Spine sunned and edge-worn. First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the imprint, and with the illustrated title-page. Ads printed at front and rear endpapers. With 8 plates by Hoppin. 373 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 8781. Provenance: Carroll Atwood Wilson (his bookplate)
Sinopsis
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula: 2+2=4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression A+B=C. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
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- Librería
- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 261674
- Título
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Autor
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Formato/Encuadernación
- With 8 plates by Hoppin. 373 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Original green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (BAL binding A). Spine sunned and edge-worn
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition, first printing with period after "Company" in the
- Editorial
- Phillips, Sampson and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1858
- Palabras clave
- American | Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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