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Heat considered as a mode of motion: being a course of twelve lectures delivered at the royal institution of great britain in the season of 1862
by TYNDALL, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. [7], x-xix, [1], 468pp. With a half-title, an engraved folding plate, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal 32pp publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Later bookplate of John Waern Hill to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title-page, very occasional light spotting. The first edition of a significant collection of lectures on the properties and applications of temperature, particularly in regard to the locomotive capabilities of heat, delivered before the Royal Institution by physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), whose research into radiant heat and its relation to gases and vapours earned him the Rutherford medal in 1869. . First edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ19336
- Title
- Heat considered as a mode of motion: being a course of twelve lectures delivered at the royal institution of great britain in the season of 1862
- Author
- TYNDALL, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- Sciences
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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