Novelties in Experimental Science Comprising Practical Teatises on Electrotype, Photography, Daguerréotype, Minerology, Geology, and Electro-Chemistry

Illustrated with numerous engravings, including hand coloured ones. This very rare compilation volume brings together five short books originally published separately in the early 1840s by Richard Griffin and Co. They comprise 'Instructions for the multiplication of works of art in metal by voltaic electricity' by Thomas Spencer (1840); 'A popular treatise on the art of photography, including Daguerréotype', by Robert Hunt (1841); 'Instructions for the discrimination of metals by simple chemical experiments', by Franz von Kobell (1841); 'The Geology of the Island of Arran - an original survey' by A C Ramsay (1841); and 'Experimental researches in Electro-chemistry' by Sir Humphry Davy (a lecture originally given in 1806). All the text is unmarked. Slight yellowing to pages' edges. Robustly bound in the original, embossed red cloth boards. These are worn at the corners; less so at the edges, and darkened round the edges area. The top three inches of the spine are missing, as are a few mm. and a one inch area to the back edge of the foot of the spine. A further three inches of the front edge of the spine are split. The gilt titling of six of the subjects covered in the book remains intact. The British Library holds no copy of this compilation volume, though it does possess each of the five components.