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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Light edge wear. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Unused. A few light scratches on cover otherwise fine.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. 4to. Original sun stained blue cloth binding attached to the rebound orange cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Black end pages. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1350grams, ISBN:

Zustand: As New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardback in very good plus condition.

Zustand: Very good.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Blue hardback binding; firm and square, just lightly rubbed with mildly bumped extremities; contents sound and clean with no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. A very good copy.

Full Leather. Zustand: Poor. Second (First Revised/Enlarged) Edition. Volume One of Accum's treatise (pub. in two vols.), 'composed for the instruction of such as are actually unacquainted with chemical science'. Second (First Revised/Enlarged) Edn., 1807; full brown tree-calf; dark red leather label (chipped/sunned) to spine, with titling and plain/decorative rules blocked in gilt (dulled/worn); xxiv+393pp.; illus. bw. diagrams. Leather to spine chipped/scuffed/worn/friable, but backstrip very robust; front board detached; rear joint/hinge weak, but board holding; slightly scuffed boards worn at corners, but quite bright; page edges very tanned; small worm-holes (uninhabited!) to p.199 (outer margin only - text not affected); p.23 mis-numbered as p.32 (compositing error); pages crisp/bright with only occasional light foxing; cords securing text firm/robust. Textually all complete/intact. An ideal candidate for re-binding. Poor. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Title continues - " the Principles and Application of Mechanics; of Hydrostatis; of Hydraulics; of Pneumatics; of Magnetism; of Electricity; of Optics; and of Astronomy, Including Every Material Modern Discovery and Improvement to the Present Time.". A New Edition ; In Two Volumes . 1802 (first published in 1799 ) . Book size - 10.5 x 8.5 inches, pp. xvi + 354 + 28 eng. plates, and iv + 251 + 26 (unnumbered index) + 2 (publishers' ad.) + 20 eng. plates, marbled endpapers, hand-sewn headbands ; hardback in full calf bindings, . Books condition - Good plus ; the two volumes with similar condition. Internally - contents clean, slight general usage and dustiness marks here and there, no foxing of pages or plates though some slight tanning of some of the plates, more so in Volume 2, two differing armorial bookplates inside the front board and on the front endpaper of Vol 1 - one of "Joseph Ffielden, Esq., Witton , Co. Lancaster" and the other of "Cornelius Verheyden de Lancey . Middle Temple . Gray's Inn " (of which, see below ), vol 2 with only the de Lancey bookplate - inner hinges intact and binding firm ; full tree calf with gilt delineated spine panels and red and black title labels, gilt decoration to boards' edges ; corners show some wear and are a bit bent but remaining firm, boards edges with some rubbing of the gilt but essentially sound, back board with general light marking from age and use but still of good appearance, spines complete with some loss at the ends. more so in volume two, gilt titles and volume numbers complete and legible but slightly rubbed, gilt decorated panel lines with some rubbing and loss, back and front hinges split with small areas of loss but have been neatly repaired and are unobtrusive, fronts again with one or two marks from general wear but of good appearance overall. Please see photos for indications of condition and contents. Baron Doctor Cornelius Ver Heyden De Lancey (1889-1984) was an author and art historian, lawyer and surgeon, and an important benefactor through the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, established in 1971. Born in the Netherlands, son of a physician, de Lancey studied medicine and dentistry at the University of Leiden, before obtaining his dental qualification in the U.S.A. He moved to London and practised as a dentist in the West End, becoming a British Citizen. During the First World War he obtained his medical qualification, specialising in surgery of the mouth and jaw.Due to a hand injury he had to abandon surgery for a period, and went to Cambridge where he studied law and was called to the bar in the Middle Temple. He practised as a barrister for some time, specialising in medico-legal cases. He later returned to dentistry, working in Rome and Florence, and in Italy he developed his interest in the History of Art, in which he researched collections of letters and published monographs. In 1935, as a result of the Ethiopian crisis, he moved to Monaco. At the outbreak of war in 1939, de Lancey returned to the United Kingdom where he became involved with the establishment of convalescent homes for war-wounded in Jersey. Following the occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans,and with a shortage of doctors in Jersey, he became a partner in a medical practice. After the eventual liberation of the island he remained and reverted to being a practising dentist. :: Joseph Ffeilden (or Fielden) 1792 - 1870 of Witton Park, Lancashire lived at Witton House, built in the early 1800s and owned by the Feilden family . Joseph Feilden was a dominant figure in Blackburn society and was MP for Blackburn 1865-9 . (Towards the end of Victoria's reign and into the 20th century Witton house and estate began a slow decline. The estate was acquired by Blackburn Corporation in 1947, but by this time dry rot had set in throughout Witton House and, with an unaffordable repair bill , it was demolished in 1952.).

TITLE CONTINUED: Translated from the French with Several Corrections and Additions, Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds at Play, the whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools, translated by Dr Hutton. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION,1801. 12mo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, pages: xix, [1] -Errata, 1-397, plus 3 pages of adverts, bound in full marbled calf with gilt rules to spine, gilt decoration to edges of covers, lacks title label. Small chip to head of spine, vertical creasing to spine, corners slightly bumped, a few pale small stains to endpapers, page 396 misnumbered 936. A very good clean tight copy. See: Raymond Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876, page 92, No. 240; . Trevor H. Hall, A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English, page 40, No. 114; Trevor Hall, Old Conjuring Books, pages 159-161; The book contains a large selection of mathematical and physical tricks and phenomena. The mathematical tricks include magic squares and mind reading, many with cards, the physical tricks include effects with sympathetic inks and other inks, and experiments with chemistry and magnets: 'To tell two or more numbers which a person has thought of'; 'Three cards being presented to three persons; to guess that which each has chosen'; 'To make people in a room have a hideous appearance'; 'To make an artificial volcano'; 'To make a phantom appear on a pedestal, placed on a table. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. TITLE CONTINUED: Translated from the French with Several Corrections and Additions, Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds at Play, the whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools, translated by Dr Hutton. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1801. 12mo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, pages: xix, [1] -Errata, 1-397, plus 3 pages of adverts, bound in full marbled calf with gilt rules to spine, gilt decoration to edges of covers, lacks title label. Small chip to head of spine, vertical creasing to spine, corners slightly bumped, a few pale small stains to endpapers, page 396 misnumbered 936. A very good clean tight copy. See: Raymond Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876, page 92, No. 240; Trevor H. Hall, A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English, page 40, No. 114; Trevor Hall, Old Conjuring Books, pages 159-161; The book contains a large selection of mathematical and physical tricks and phenomena. The mathematical tricks include magic squares and mind reading, many with cards, the physical tricks include effects with sympathetic inks and other inks, and experiments with chemistry and magnets: To tell two or more numbers which a person has thought of; Three cards being presented to three persons; to guess that which each has chosen; To make people in a room have a hideous appearance; To make an artificial volcano; To make a phantom appear on a pedestal, placed on a table. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

TWO VOLUMES. FIRST EDITION. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Vol. I, [2] + vi + blank leaf + xvi Names of Subscribers + xvi + iii + [i] pp. + 373 + [1] pp; Vol. I, [2] + xxvii + [1] + 360 pp. + xxxi pp., including index. Bound in contemporary tree calf; spines in compartments with gilt bands and contrasting maroon labels, which now have no titles. Some wear to extremities and scattered foxing; otherwise a very good set. Illustrated by 5 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. A systematic survey of chemistry, covering general principles and the properties of gases, acids and the known chemical elements, including metals. Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist, who lived in London, 1793-1821 and worked at the Royal Institution. He is known as a pioneer of gas lighting and a campaigner against food adulteration. A second edition appeared in 1807, with two further editions being published in Philadelphia. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE CHEMISTRY SCIENCE- CHEMISTRY 19TH CENTURY NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.

First English edition. First English edition. xix, [i, errata], 397, 3 (publisher's ads) pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums, problems, parlor tricks, and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards, magic squares, magic lanterns, feats of artificial memory, and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy," by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar, plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities, including chapters on arithmetic ("To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them, &c.", "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter") and amusing "secrets" ("To make people in a room have a hideous appearance"). Toole Stott 240 Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn, joints cracked but sewing sound, lacking spine label, text block roughly trimmed, occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise xix, [i, errata], 397, 3 (publisher's ads) pp. 8vo.