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 Three Hundred Illustrations. Eighth Edition.
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.
Description
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).
Booknumber
P10267
Price
Price: GBP 220.00 or USD 271.00
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