Du Moncel Le Comte Théodose (3 results)

8vo, pp. [iv], 390, [2]. Numerous illustrations included within pagination, some full page. Original blue paper wrappers printed in black. A little spotting. Wrappers chipped, somewhat soiled, front joint sometime repaired with clear tape. Modern ownership inscription to flyleaf. The fourth edition of the entry on the telephone from the long-running series of popular science books La Bibliothèque des merveilles.…

8vo, pp. [iv], 371, [3], 16 [ads]. Numerous illustrations included within pagination, some full page. Original dark blue cloth, boards bordered with blind frames and blocked in gilt, spine blocked in gilt, edges red. A little spotting. Cloth of front joint splitting but hinge holding, corners a little bumped. The revised and more fully illustrated fifth edition of the entry on the telephone from the long-running series of popular science books La Bibliothèque des merveilles.…

8vo, pp. 348. Contemporary brown roan, boards bordered with a blind frame, spine divided by raised bands, lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled in gilt. A little spotting. Spine sunned, edges a little rubbed, a little wear to head of spine, front hinge relined with cloth tape. Lycée de Rennes prize label dated 4. Août 1880 to flyleaf, their gilt stamp to front board, ?Early Technology? bookplate of Michael Bennett-Levy to pastedown. The second edition - from the same year as the first - of the entry on the telephone, microphone, and phonograph from the long-running series of popular science books La Bibliothèque des merveilles. The majority of the text is on the telephone and by the fourth edition the other two inventions had been dropped from the title.…