Handbook of Natural Philosophy for School and Home Use by W. J. Rolfe and J. A. Gillet - 1869

New York, New York: Woolworth, Ainsworth, 1869. Decorative Cloth. Good. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, frontispiece (4 color with tissue guard) + viii + 328 pages with black and white intertextual illustration + 3 contour map plates (two color). A good original copy over all with significant exterior shelf wear, cloth edge worn and lightly soiled with fraying at the top and bottom of the spine, and evidence of minor dampstaining; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed BUT front free endpaper torn out and a previous owner's penciled notes on endpapers and fly leafs, light foxing stains to title page and some margins, a few scattered pencil marks and use stains throughout.