Pepper - BOY'S BOOK OF METALS 300 illustrations (c. 1885)
[P10267]

£220.00

Author: Pepper, John Henry (1821-1900)

Title: THE BOY'S BOOK OF METALS [PLAYBOOK OF METALS on cover] Including Personal Narratives of Visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines with A Large Number of Interesting Experiments relating to Alchemy and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements .. With

PlacePub: London

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons 8th edition

Date: 1885 by inscription

Illustrations: Engravings (300 illustrations but only 265 numbered inc. last page) Frontispiece by E. Evans showing Mallett's Mortar.

Pepper - BOY'S BOOK OF METALS 300 illustrations (c. 1885)

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Octavo blue gilt cloth on bevelled boards (recased with spine underlaid, tips worn, spine faded) All Edges Gilt viii +502pp + [2]pp Zirconium & General Remarks. Inscription H.F. Howard Christmas 1885 on back of fly leaf. A neat tight copy each chapter usually dealing with one metal, + Art of Alchemy, Coal Mines etc. *Rare. Beautifully illustrated with fine engravings throughout. First published 1861 under title The Playbook of Metals (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge).

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Pepper - BOY'S BOOK OF METALS 300 illustrations (c. 1885)[P10267]

£220.00

Pepper - BOY'S BOOK OF METALS 300 illustrations (c. 1885)
[P10267]