Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
John BadcockLondon: T. Hughes, No date.
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.
Jenkins is exhibiting at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair.
Online orders can still be placed and will ship from August 18.
AU$800.00
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