A Manual of Scientific Enquiry; Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty's Navy and Travellers in General

A fourth edition of this fascinating guide to scientific enquiry from English polymath Sir John Frederick William Herschel. Fourth edition. Illustrated with two folding maps and numerous in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed guide to scientific enquiry with chapters on astronomy, hydrography, tides, meteorology, geography, statistics, ethnology, geology, minerology, seismology, zoology, and botany. Written by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer, and botanist who invented the blueprint. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good.