The Battery and the Boiler or, Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Electric Cables

by R. M Ballantyne

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1883. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. With six engraved plates after illustrations by the author, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's brown cloth, with titles and decoration in gilt and black to spine and upper..... More

• Printing: first

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