Small octavo in stamped and silver & gold gilt cloth-backed boards; xv, 239 pages.; 31p appendix; 20 cm. Handomely done illustrations to front board. 31-page bookseller-catalogue to rear. Bookseller stamp of S Hogg Charing Cross road to front pastedown. Contents: Mechanism of sensation.--The starlit sky.--Pre-historic man.--Volcanoes and coral reefs.--Atoms and molecules.--Ice and the Ice Age.--Two life histories.--Coal.--Sermons in stones.--How the earth is weighed and measured.--Depths of ocean.--Lobsters.--The common frog. Science. Geology. Essays. Hinges slightly weak but intact, board edges and spine extremities mildly worn, mild foxing to prelims and endpapers; else tight and clean. Binding tight. Overall about very good(-).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Talks About Science; by Thomas Dunman; with a biographical sketch by Charles Welsh

Publisher

Griffith & Farran, London

Publication Date

1882

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Presumed first edition.

Condition

very good(-)

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Science, Technology & Computers

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