walker robert junior (2 résultats)

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). First edition. A resourceful, first-edition memoir anthology of the most significant early-nineteenth-century scientists, complete with folding frontispiece. First edition. Commercially scarce. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a pleasing folding frontispiece. A comprehensive selection of memoirs on the eminent male scientists of the early nineteenth century. Compiled by publisher William Walker, Junior, the text provides a succinct biographical introduction to the likes of Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, Henry Cavendish, Sir William Herschel and Charles Tennant. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to minor loss of cloth, tearing and fraying, most notable at the head of the spine, and a few marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound, slightly weaker between pages 32 and 33 and 160 and 161. Preface pages unopened. Bright and clean with the exception of the endpapers, which feature more prominent spotting and toning. Very Good. book.

First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.