A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts, and Interesting Experiments, Which Are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and May be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense

by Rufus Porter

$1,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Concord, N.H. : Published by Rufus Porter, J. B. Moore, Printer, 1826. 16mo 6.625” x 4” , marbled paper over boards, later red cloth spine. 2 , half-title, frontis., viii, 9 –132 pp. Second illus. at p. 122, facing appendix. Early ownership and presentation inscriptions in ink and pencil at ffep “Christmas 1956 i.e., 1856 Rufus to Sam” ; p. 1 “John A Soasy ? Boston Sept 28 1836” ; and p. 3 “Fred W G.

• Binding: Hardcover

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