A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE WINDS : Comprising the General Motions of the Atmosphere, Monsoons, Cyclones, Tornadoes, Waterspouts, Hailstorms, etc. etc.

Ferre , William:

Published by Macmillan and Co London, 1893

About this Item

2nd edition, 1893. Book size - c. 9 x 6 inches, pp. b&w frontis + vii + 505 + 7(blank), illustrations in the text, 'clay' paper endpapers, hardback in publisher's cloth. Book condition - Good Plus ; contents clean, some foxing of endpapers then rapidly diminishing in the preliminaries, occasional neat pencil inscriptions/underlinings, inner hinges intact and binding firm ; publisher's dark-green cloth with gilt title on the spine : front corners a bit bent and with some rubbing , back of clean appearance with no marks and with scattered small spots of colour loss, back hinge intact though with the top 4 cm. evidently split and repaired, spine complete with ends creased and rubbed with small nicks, spine colour a little darkened and with a central area of slight colour loss, the spine gilt title is a little dulled but remains complete and clear, front hinge good, front board clean and again with small spots of colour loss. Please see photos (which tend to exaggerate the spotting/colour loss) for indications of condition and contents. William Ferrel (1817 1891) was an eminent American meteorologist who developed theories that explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail. See online entries, eg. Wikipedia, for a fuller account of his life and work. This treatise, first ritten only a couple of years before his death, is a detailed and wide ranging scholarly work on the atmosphere and how it affects the weather. Seller Inventory # 2532

Bibliographic Details

Title: A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE WINDS : Comprising...

Publisher: Macmillan and Co London

Publication Date: 1893

Binding: Hardcover