E atkinson translator and editor (1 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good No dust jacket as issued. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Fraying to cloth at tail of spine. Hinges broken. Bradford Grammar School prize label dated 1877 on front endpaper. A 12mm tear to lower margin of title leaf.; Second edition. [2 (advertisements), xiii, [3], 542 pages + [2], 32 (advertisements) + lithograph frontispiece (colour) + 1 lithograph plate (colour). 429 in-text woodcut figures. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 181 x 122mm. Spine title: "Popular / Natural / Philosophy / Ganot". Text in English. "The present work has its origin in an attempt to comply with a suggestion which has frequently been made to me, that I should prepare an abridged edition of my translation of Ganot's 'Elements de Physique', which could be used for purposes of more elementary instruction than that work" - from the Preface.…