A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which is Added a Lecture on Platinum

Faraday, Michael; William Crookes [Editor]

Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1861

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First American edition. viii, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Good copy, boards have a few small stains, wear and chipping to cloth along edges, lettering mostly rubbed off, dampstain to endpapers, small bookplate ghost to paste down. A classic illustrated series of Christmas lectures on the composition of flames for children and lay folks.

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A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which is Added a Lecture on Platinum

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Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York

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1861

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First American edition.

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