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A Preliminary Discourse on the State of Natural Philosophy.

Book Description

Title page with engraved vignette.

Dealer Notes

Bookplate pasted inside front cover. Contents with a few fox marks and paper imperfections.

Author Herschel, John Frederick William.

Date 1830 (new edition)

Binding Marbled boards, leather spine with gilt decoration and lettering. 17x11cms

Publisher Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Green, London.

Condition Covers scuffed with some loss of paper to lower front edge, leather little rubbed. Title and first few pages heavily foxed.

Pages Title page + p v - viii (contents, etc) + 1-372pp

Price: £200.00

Offered by Jane & John Kinnaird

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