MITCHELL, James

First lines of science: or a comprehensive and progresive view of the leading branches of modern scientific discovery and invention

London: Thomas Tegg, 1827. 8vo. xi, 347, [1] pp. With engraved frontispiece, 18 numbered full-page etched plates and 1 full-page letterpress table. Contemporary cloth-backed binder’s boards, paper spine label; glue damage to Plate X resulting in the inner margin of the next leaf being fused to it with minor loss of some words. Two ownership inscriptions on the front flyleaf, one dated 1835 and one dated 1842. Item #10314

Price: $250.00