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[1969]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 236pp. Carleton Library series - Number 43. 12mo. Wrappers; iconic series design by Frank Newfeld. Numerous titles from the Carleton Library series available, with various printings and conditions. Notable blemishes have been described. Please enquire for specific details. Discount available on the purchase of multiple titles.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Mammoth technical & historic study of electrical lighting, mostly from the pages of the British journal "Engineering."; revised and amended. Includes information on basic electricity, voltaic arcs, mechanical production of electricity, generators in theory & practice, conductors, carbons, arc lamps, the Jablochkoff Candle, incandescence-arc lamps, incandescent lamps, abstracts of patents; electrical measurement, standard works on electricity, photometry, the human eye, dynamometers, testing installations, recent dynamos & lamps. Volume one is undated, but circa 1882. Hardcover, two giant volumes bound in full maroon cloth, gilt titling. Professionally rebacked, original spines laid down, general wear & scuffing, rubbing, nicks, frayed corners & edges; new endsheets minor tanning to pages, ink name on flyleaf of volume two, damage (short tears, tanning, chips) to a few page edges. Text clean; xx, 693, cxc; xv, blank, 455, cccxciv; xiii pages; indices, figures. (The large roman-numbered sections in each volume are the patent abstract sections.) Size: Large Quarto. …