The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere

G. Hartwig

London

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Longmans, Green, and Co.

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1877

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Early Edition.

22cm x 15cm. xviii, 556 pages, 8 chromoxylopgrahic plates, woodcuts. Prize leather binding, marbled edges and endpapers.

Georg Hartwig (1813-80) was a German scientific writer who produced popular works on geographical and natural history topics. The Aerial World was original published in 1869. This copy is a North Adelaide Grammar School prize binding of an early edition. Map missing, gorgeous colour plates, numerous unnumbered woodcut illustrations.

Leather rubbed and soiled in places. Minor cracking. Minor soiling in places. Good Condition.