Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
Early Edition.
15cm x 9cm. xv, 200 pages, colour folding frontispiece. Quarter cloth, papered boards, paper label.
A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
Aged rebacked quarter cloth. Creasing to front free endpaper Frontispiece with a few very marginal creases to fore-edge, a very small chip to top edge, and some very minor soiling. Occasional minor foxing and corner crease. Very Good Condition.
AU$800.00
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