michael faraday editor william crookes (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Near Very Good. "A Course of Lectures Delivered Before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution." Edited and with a Preface and Notes by William Crookes. With Reproductions of the Original Illustrations and a New Introduction by Keith Gordon Irwin. 7 3/4" Tall. Previous owner's initials at top of ffep and on fore edge. Some browning to cover, mainly on back and a light crease to bottom corner. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. A new edition with illustrations. Type: Book Internally fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Full Blue calf leather with Five raised bands, red leather title slip and gilt titles and decs to spine and College Gilt blocked device to front, gilt dec edges to boards, marbled non parallel red end papers and hand sewn two colour head and tail bands. Signed Prize binding by Bickers & Son London.175 x 120 mm approx. matching marbled edges to book block, 200 pages 59 line figs in text. Series of 6 Lectures + Light-House Illumination- The Electric Light delivered 1860. Undated circa 1890's (New Edition with Illustrations). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- 4 cm approx crack to leather top front hinge, no notable rubbing or soiling. no cracks to end papers and binding other than crack to leather very sound. The leather has now been treated and polished by us. No other notable defects).

First American edition. First American edition. viii, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Good copy, boards have a few small stains, wear and chipping to cloth along edges, lettering mostly rubbed off, dampstain to endpapers, small bookplate ghost to paste down. A classic illustrated series of Christmas lectures on the composition of flames for children and lay folks.