Preliminary report of the Committee on Explosives, with plates

by C. W. Younghusband, President of the Committee

$1,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London : printed at the War Office, 1870. First edition, folio, pp. 2 , 11, 1 ; 2 folding plates, 7 folding tables and graphs, several printed in color; original blue printed wrappers; wrappers curled at fore. and bottom edges, a few short tears entering from the fore-margin; all else very good. This copy with a presentation from Sir Frederick Augustus Abel to the renowned natural philosopher John Tyndall, inscribed and signed by Abel at the top of the front

• Binding: Wrappers

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