THE PLAYBOOK OF METALS: Including Personal Narratives of Visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines; with A Large Number of Interesting Experiments Relating to Alchemy and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements
Routledge, Warne and Routledge: London, 1861. "Illustrated with nearly 300 engravings", 7.5 x 5", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec maroon cloth, 504pp, covers rubbed and unevenly sunned, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a little cocked, spine ends torn, hinges loose, ink inscription from former owner on front fly, some minor spotting and..... More