FREE EVENING LECTURES, delivered in connection with The Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 1876 by South Kensington Museum

(London: Published for the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall) Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 524. Illustrated. A collection of authoritative articles of the first order of interest, including, for example, ‘On John Dalton’s Apparatus, and what he did with it’ by Professor Roscoe, F.R.S.; ‘On Telegraphy’ by Mr. W.H. Preece, M.I.C.E., etc.; ‘On Photographic Printing Processes’ by Capt. Abney, R.E., F.R.S.; ‘On Faraday’s Apparatus’ by Professor Tyndall, F.R.S.; ‘On Davy’s and Faraday’s Apparatus’ by Professor Gladstone, F.R.S.; ‘On Astronomical Instruments’ by Rev. R. Main, F.R.S.; ‘On Antarctic Exploration’ by Captain Davis, R.N.; Etc. Etc., there being twenty-five papers in all. All edges uncut. Scattered light flecking to the cloth, mainly to the rear board; a light stain or two to the cloth; a little foxing to the edges; otherwise a fine and largely unopened copy.