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NY: A. S. Barnes. Good with no dust jacket. 1872. Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt-stamped leather backstrip. Index, 222 engravings of scientific apparatus and machines. Boards heavily worn, spine missing top inch from head, owner name on front flyleaf, gift inscription on rear flyleaf, pages toned. The author was the principal of Elmira Free Academy in Elmira, NY, a private boy's school and this volume was one of several scientific textbooks he authored for secondary school use. Natural Philosophy is today referred to as physics, and this book covers general laws of physics, mechanical operation, acoustics, optics, heat and electricity. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages .
Fourteen Weeks in Natural Philosophy by Steele, J. Dorman - 1871
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New York and Chicago: A.S. Barnes & Co, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. 340 p., frontispiece: 222 in-text drawings; 19 cm. Black leather spine with gilt spine title; blind-stamped title on both boards: A Fourteen Weeks Course in Philosophy. Marbled page edges. Pink endpapers bearing publisher's advertisements. Publisher's advertisement for 8 titles in the Fourteen Weeks in All the Sciences on title page verso. Copyright 1969. Includes Notes on Apparatus and Experiments, questions for study, and an index. Embossed bookseller stamp on front free endpaper and following blank leaf for James B. Small's Centre Square Bookstore, York, Pa. Contents: Attraction -- Motion -- Mechanical Powers -- Pressure of Lliquids and Gases -- On Sound -- On Light -- On Heat -- On Electricity. In Very Good Condition: spine is rubbed; "14" written on spine twice; cover is slightly soiled; two ink marks on title page; pages are clean and tight.
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New York and Chicago: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1872. 340pgs. frontispiece. 222 black and white illustrations. Dark Brown embossed covers, Leather spine with gilt lettering. Frayed upper spine edge which has been reinforced, scuffing on the spine, pages toned, otherwise a tight, clean copy 19th century school book on physics demonstrating molecular forces, laws of motion, machinery, hydraulics, acoutics, heat, electricity with wonderful, vintage illustrations. . Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Octavo.
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