Published by New York: D. Appleton, 1872, 1872
Seller: Antiquarian Scientist, The, Westhampton, MA, U.S.A.
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First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. three-quarter lea. iv, (viii)-xviii, 455 pp. Thirteen chromolithographed and lithographed plates, some folding + 5 woodcut portrait plates + very numerous woodcuts in the text mostly of apparatus. Tear to an index leaf with old repair (no losses), joints rubbed; otherwise, a very good, crisp copy. A useful and attractively illustrated work on nineteenth century spectroscopy with considerable emphasis on instrumentation. The first edition was published at Brunswick in 1870; the first English edition, edited and with notes by William Huggins, appeared in 1872, the same year as this American edition. Roller & Goodman II.404.