A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which is Added a Lecture on Platinum

by Michael Faraday, William Crookes

$1,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1861. First American edition. viii, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Good copy, boards have a few small stains, wear and chipping to cloth along edges, lettering mostly rubbed off, dampstain to endpapers, small bookplate ghost to paste down. A classic illustrated series of Christmas lectures on the composition of flames for children and

• Binding: Hardcover

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