interleaved copy with annotations
MAWE, John.
A descriptive catalogue of minerals, intended for the use of students; by which they may arrange the specimens they collect: Also the catalogue accompanying portable collections. Sold by J. Mawe... To which is added, the method of examining minerals by the new invented blow-pipe; and a description of the lapidary's apparatus.
London, Printed and sold by the Author, and by Longman [etc], 1816.
Second edition. 8vo., xiv, 94, [vi, errata and index] pp., engraved frontispiece, interleaved throughout with some contemporary annotations, contemporary sheep, rebacked, new label, corners worn, a very good example.
Stock code 99298
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January 15, 1940.
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The Tesla High Frequency Coil.
1910.
A first edition of the well-illustrated copy of The Tesla High Frequency Coil by George F. Haller and Elmer Tilling Cunningham
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NEWTON, Isaac; EINSTEIN, Albert.
Opticks or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light.
1931.
Fifth edition of Newton's Opticks, the first published since the fourth edition of 1730, and the first with Albert Einstein's foreword. An unusually nice copy in the uncommon diust jacket.
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