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New Editions. All volumes are handsomely bound in HALF BROWN LEATHER, marbled borads, lettered gilt at the spine with 5 raised bands. Occasional slight foxing to prelims. Portrait frontis of Henry Lord Brougham at front of first volume. Very good indeed. 1855 -1860 Vol 1. ORGANIC NATURE, Volume One (undated ) xvi, 393pp. Principles Of Physiology : The Structure of The Skeleton And Of The Teeth : And The Varieties Of The Human Race by the Editor, Professor Owen and R G Latham Folding map to centre. Vol 2.xvi, 491pp, Botany and Invertebrated Animals.1860. Vol 3 xvi, 538pp, Vertebrated Animals, A System Of Natural History : Being A Structural And Classified Arrangement Of Plants And Animals, Forming A Basis for the Study of Botany and Zoology. With Numerous Microscopic And Other Illustrations by Edward Smith and W S Dallas. Vol 4. INORGANIC NATURE, dated 1860, xx, 587pp, Geology, Mineralogy, And Crystallography : Being A Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive View Of Inorganic Nature. The Form And Classification Of Crystals And a Chemical Arrangement of Minerals by Professor D T Ansted, Professor Tennant and Rev Walter Mitchell, folding map to front. Vol 5. - THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, viii, 454pp. (undated)Including Simple Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Elements Of Euclid by J R Young. Planes Spherical Trigonometry, Series, Logarithms, And Mensuration by Rev J F Twisden and Practical Geometry by Alexander Jardine + 8pages further reading to rear. Vol 6- ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, viii, 528pp,(undated) Elementary Chemistry Of The Imponderable Agents And Of Inorganic Bodies Including Light, Heat, Electricity, And Magnetism; The Simple Chemical Bodied, And Their Inorganic Compounds by John Scoffern. Vol 7- PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY, NAVIGATION, NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY; Being A Guide to the Scenery of the Heavens, the Planetary and Stellar Movements. The Practice Of Navigation, And Phenomena of the Atmosphere by J R Young, Hugh Breen, John Scoffern and E J Lowe viii, 598pp.(1860) Vol 8 - PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY, dxvi, 574pp, Including The Theory And Practice Of Electro-Deposition; Photographic Art; The Chemistry Of Food, With a Chapter on its Adulterations; and The Chemistry Of Artificial Illumination George Gore, Marcus Sparling and John Scoffern. (undated) Vol9. - MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY MECHANICS STEAM ENGINES, dated 1856, xv, 519pp, (undated)Including The Properties Of Matter, Elementary Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Pneumatics, Practical Mechanics, And The Steam Engine by Rev Walter Mitchell, J R Young and John Imray.
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