Buy this book on-line HALE Edward E : Stories of Invention, Told By Inventors and Their FriendsThomas Nelson, London, 1887
12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. brown cloth with gilt and black titling and pictorial decoration to upper board and spine, Stephenson's locomotive to spine, light rubbing to edges, mcorners just starting to fray,gift inscription to reverse of fep [ R F W Ashworth, from Lady Campbell, with all good wishes, Christmas 1887 ] , floral endpapers, front hinge cracked between fep and frontis, engraved frontis and a decorative title page as well as the full text title, 17 more full page illustrations, didactic accounts of the great inventors of the past from Archimedes down, includes; Archimedes, Friar Bacon and Virgilius, Cellini, Bernard Palissy, Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Robert Fulton, George Stephenson and the Locomotive, Eli Whitney, James Nasmyth, Henry Bessemer, 301pp. Illustr.: Engravings. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Decorative Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HALE Edward E : Stories of Invention, Told By Inventors and Their Friends. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, livres d'occasion, antiquarian books and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |