A new philosophy of matter showing the identity of all the imponderables and the influence which electricity exerts over matter in producing all chemical changes and all motion

by George Brewster

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Adrian, Michigan : printed for the author by A. W. Maddocks, 1843. First edition, 12mo, pp. 216; contemporary brown muslin; endpapers foxed; text clean; early ownership signature of H. S. McCallum. The book reached a third edition by 1858. This first edition was published in an obscure western village, under very disadvantageous and embarrassing circumstances . . . the whole edition of 2000 copies was sold in the back woods of the western country Wood . The

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