Pepper Professor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Contents include: The Air-Pump; The Diving-Bell; The Barometer; Water Pumps; Admiral Fitzroy's Weather Guide; Acoustics; Marloye's Introduction to Chevallier's Catalogue; Vibrations of Strings, Rods, Plates, and Columns of Air; The Transmission of Sound Through Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid; etc., etc. 98pp + 2p book list; 58 numbered illus. Name of previous owner on ffep. No date or edition stated, but assumed to be a first, ca 1865. Front hinge strained but secure, and otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No date; circa 1877. Red boards with black deocoration and gilt title to front cover. Black title to spine. Boards slightly worn and dirty with corners rubbed. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. Glue residue at bottom of frontpastedown where booksellers sticker likely was placed.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Likely early reprint, ca. late 19th century, with no printing data listed. Clean and tightly bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles. Rubbing to the edges and smudging, remains Very Good. The contents include 61 technical illustrations including "The Pneumatics Despatch Company's Tube", the "Flying Machine", "Gas-flame Organ" and others. The contents have a few spots and penciled name only. The front hinge is paper split, however the binding remains tight. A nice copy.

Reprint. Small 8vo. (16cm. tall x 10cm.). pp. iv, 503 - 626. With engraved frontispiece and over 100 engraved text figures. In the original colour pictorial card covers. Covers and endpapers soiled and dampstained. Contents loose. A good complete copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Five separate books. Small 4to. pp. 126; 88; 146; 87. Very good copies in original cloth, corners slightly rubbed. Rare as separate books. These five works together with Chemistry form the 6 parts of Pepper's Cyclopaedic Science published as a single book in 1869. Of the six separate works the British Library only has Chemistry, and does not have any of these five works. John Henry Pepper was a celebrity populariser of Victorian science, whose Royal Polytechnic Institution lectures attracted large audiences to witness his amazing experimental demonstrations. He made the phaenomena of physics and chemistry visible and hence accessible, challenging the boundaries between laboratory science and theatrical spectacle. His most famous stage demonstration was "Pepper's Ghost" described in "Light", which made its debut at the Polytechnic in a Christmas performance of Charles Dickens's Haunted Man in 1862.

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