Author: [Trade Catalogue]. Baird, Henry Carey
Title: CATALOGUE Of PRACTICAL And SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, Published by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 406 Walnut St., Philadelphia. For Sale by William Wood & Co., Publishers, Booksellers, and Importers, No. 61 Walker Street, New York. February 15, 1870
Description: Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher, 1870. 1st edition thus. Not in Romaine, who lists only one Baird catalogue [1879]. Original printed, pale salmon-colored wrappers. Index to inside wrappers. 81, [1] pp. Last page blank. Woodcut vignette of scientific instruments to front wrapper. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Wrappers stained, primarily to extremities, extending unobtrusively into text block upper margin. Paper rash to spine crown. Withal, a VG copy. Rare bookseller trade catalogue; OCLC lists one institutional holding [Harvard], though noting a different NY bookseller on the front wrapper.

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