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Staplebound wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Baird Associates's Commercial Three-Meter Grating Spectrograph and the Transformation of Analytical Chemistry by DAVIS BAIRD. Everything from Watch to Locomotive by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.…

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition - Original Issue. This is an Original, complete issue of 16 pages dated February 15, 1868 -- Vol. 12, No. 581 -- Illustrated with wood cut engravings -- Covers and contents are tight, very nice condition -- The Front Cover has a large engraving by W. B. Baird and article titled "The Great Fire In Chicago, January 28, 1868" -- Page 100 has two large engravings, one titled "An Avalanche In An Alpine Pass", the other by Stanley Fox titled "Relieving The Poor At No. 1 Bond Street, New York" -- Page 104 has a full page engraving by W. S. L. Jewett titled "Broadway, February, 1868" -- Page 105 has a full page engraving by Theodore R. Davis titled "Buffalo Attacked By Wolves" -- Page 108 has two large engravings, one titled "Hunting Quaggas And Zebras In Africa", the other "Indians Fishing For Salmon In Oregon" -- Page 109 has three engravings titled as follows: "Lying In Wait" (a snowball fight), "Burning Of The Academy Of Music, Albany", and "Fenian Attack On The Martello Tower, Duncannon, Ireland, January 17, 1868" -- This issue contains portions of the following serials: "My Neighbor Nelly" by Miss Thackeray, Part I, and "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins, Chapters XI & XII -- Many articles related to these engravings and other events occurring at the time, as well as very interesting advertising -- We store and ship each Harper's Weekly issue in a large zip lock plastic sleeve with a board insert for stiffness. They are shipped flat and never folded or rolled up. W. B. Baird - Stanley Fox - W. S. L. Jewett - Theodore R. Davis - (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.