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ART DECO front cover and spine design is by noted British graphic designer, Talwyn Morris, with his "signature" mark on the front cover of each volume. Six volumes, complete. Aside from some endpaper spotting, very fresh and clean, and the cover designs are in VERY NICE CONDITION (not ex-library!!!).An unusually fine copy of this six-volume set covering astronomy, climate, physics, chemistry, electricity, botany and other biological sciences, agriculture, physiology, medisine, anthropology, engineering, and much more. Profusely illustrated with black & white and color images (some folding). A wealthy of information on the state of pure and practical sciences at the turn of the 19th, and into the beginning of the 20th centuries. Very HANDSOME SET with startlingly clear gilt design. Postage extra because of weight.
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SCIENCE IN MODERN LIFE: A Survey of Scientific Development, discovery and Invention and Their Relations to Human Progress and Industry
by Davis, J. R. Ainsworth, ed
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EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL. With Illustrations, from Designs by George Cattermole
by Calabrella (The Baroness de)
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London: Henry Colburn, publisher, 1846. First edition (later printing?) viii (including frontis), 453 pp. _______ WITH 25 STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES (other copies only recorD 24) IN HANDSOME FULL BYNTUN BINDING. ________ Several writers, including William Harrison Ainsworth, with text complementing the series of illustrations by Cattermole, most of which involve events at the famous country mansion Haddon Hall. ________ Binding is full brown straight-grained morocco with raised band and gilt & blind decorated compartments. Gilt ruling and inner panels on front and back covers; gilt turn-ins and gilt along board edges; all page edges gilt; brown marbled endpapers. A STRIKINGLY HANDSOME, CLEAN COPY in Bayntun binding and illustrated vignettes engraved on steel in the manner of those by Turner as in Roder's Italy. ________ Except for slight rubbind at head and top of front hinge, A VERY FINE, CHOICE COPY!!!!!
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