Lectures Home by Hack, Used (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Brown cloth, spine panel lettered/decorated in gilt, covers decorated and bordered in blind. 2nd ed. xii,212 pp., frontis. + (5) engraved plates. Front cover sunned and showing mild dampstaining toward edges, back cover partially sunned. Approx. 1 1/4" surface loss to upper portion of backstrip, shallow loss at heel. Firm binding. Interior dampstaining affects plates only; all plates present, one detached. Some early pages show a few pencil notations in margins. Text includes 6 lectures: (I) The Discovery and Manufacture of Glass; (II) Manufacture of Glass (cont'd.); (III) Refraction: Lenses and Mirrors; (IV) Spectacles and Telescopes; (V) Microscopes and Camera-Obscura (VI) The Eye. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 211 pages. Light foxing/age here and there. H.16cm W.11cm D.1.5cm.

Gilt-decorated Red Leather. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. xii, engraved frontispiece and extra title page, 212pp, 5 engraved illustrations, ink birthday inscription dated 1848 on free endpaper, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt-decorated red/brown leather binding. Lecture I - The Discovery and Manufacture of Glass Lecture II - Manufacture of Glass continued Lecture III - Refraction - lenses and mirrors Lecture IV - Spectacles and Telescopes Lecture V - Microscopes and Camera-Obscura Lecture VI - The Eye Size: 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. Glass Manufacture, Lenses Etc.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). Leatherbound volume with gilt title to the spine and gilt detailing to the boards and inner edges of the boards. With six engraved plates including the frontispiece. Maria Hack (1777-1844) was an educational writer. Maria Hack's youngest brother, Bernard Barton (17841849), the friend of Charles Lamb and a minor poet, recalled that in his youth his sister had been "a sort of oracle to me". Her enthusiasm for the education of children extended beyond her own family: in 1812 she published First Lessons in English Grammar, and a variety of other educational works for children followed. She also wrote works on theology. This volume contains three lectures on: Discovery and Manufacture of Glass Lenses and Mirrors The Structure of the Eye In a calf binding with gilt detail. Externally generally smart. Slight rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good. book.