A history of inventions, discoveries, and origins.
London: H.G. Bohn, 1846. 2 vols. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 518; xii, 548 pp., including index. Revised and enlarged 4th and last edition in English. Engraved frontispiece portraits of author by Lud. Schmidt and of James Watt by Sir W. Beechy. Contemporary full calf, marbled endpapers and edges. Revised and enlarged..... More