Louis Figuier - Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes - 1855
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Louis Figuier, author/illustrator, Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes, two volumes, published in 1855, French, demi leather binding, 782 pages, 18 × 12 cm, excellent condition.
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Louis Figuier – Exposition and History of the Principal Modern Scientific Discoveries, Vol. 1 and 2 – 1855
Paris, Victor Masson / Langlois and Leclercq, 1855. Fourth edition. 2 volumes in-12 (vols I and II of IV).
Vol. I: Steam Engine – Steamships – Railways. Vol. II: Photography – Aerial and Electric Telegraphy – Electrotyping and Chemical Gilding – Le Verrier’s Planet.
Numerous engravings in the text, including a large cut of a locomotive signed C. Pons.
Contemporary bindings half brown calf, spine with raised bands ornamented with fillets and gilt compartments, boards marbled paper.
Condition: interior fresh, paper clean. Wear to the headbands and raised bands, boards marbled with rubs and small losses at the edge. A good copy of a classic of Second Empire popular science.
Louis Figuier – Exposition and History of the Principal Modern Scientific Discoveries, Vol. 1 and 2 – 1855
Paris, Victor Masson / Langlois and Leclercq, 1855. Fourth edition. 2 volumes in-12 (vols I and II of IV).
Vol. I: Steam Engine – Steamships – Railways. Vol. II: Photography – Aerial and Electric Telegraphy – Electrotyping and Chemical Gilding – Le Verrier’s Planet.
Numerous engravings in the text, including a large cut of a locomotive signed C. Pons.
Contemporary bindings half brown calf, spine with raised bands ornamented with fillets and gilt compartments, boards marbled paper.
Condition: interior fresh, paper clean. Wear to the headbands and raised bands, boards marbled with rubs and small losses at the edge. A good copy of a classic of Second Empire popular science.
Details
Number of books
2
Subject
Science
Book title
Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes
Author/ Illustrator
Louis Figuier
Condition
Fine
Publication year oldest item
1855
Height
18 cm
Edition
Reprint
Width
12 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
782
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