Book Description

HERO OF ALEXANDRIA TRANS WOODCROFT. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria from the Original Greek. London, Taylor, Walker and Maberly, 1851. Small 4to, pp xix, [1], 117, [3], extra wood-engraved title page, text wood-engravings throughout, original sage green blind-stamped cloth, a little rubbed, faded and chaffed and with with short splits at spine ends, but a very good clean sound copy,
Dealer Notes
FIRST EDITION; dedicated by Woodcroft to Albert, the Prince Consort, this typographical triumph of Charles Whittingham, including 78 text wood-engravings of early machinery, commemorates the technical and engineering triumphs of the Great Exhibition held in the year of publication. It is notoriously difficult to find a fairly nice copy of this publication.
Author HERO OF ALEXANDRIA TRANS WOODCROFT.
Date 1851.
Binding original sage green blind-stamped cloth
Publisher London, Taylor, Walker and Maberly,
Condition See description

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