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1873 La Chaleur
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Description
Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Rebound
A fascinating work on the physics and chemistry of heat and how heat is created. Including chapters on evaporation, conduction, artificial heat, heat on earth, and more.
The third edition of this work.
Written by Achille Cazin.
Containing a frontispiece in colour and ninety-two in-text vignette illustrations by A. Jahandier. Collated and complete.
Handsomely bound in quarter morocco prize binding for Lycee St. Louis, with a prize bookplate to the front free-endpaper: 'Universite de France, Lycee Saint-Louis (Ancien College d'Harcourt), Classe de Cinquieme, Prix d'Exemptions, accorde a l'Eleve Spiers, Paris, le 14 Juin, 1874'.
Condition
In quarter morocco prize binding with decorative cloth covered boards. Externally, lovely, with just a small amount of rubbing to the spine and a small amount of shelf wear to the rear board. Prize bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. A couple spots to the first few pages, but otherwise pages are bright and clean throughout.
Very Good Indeed
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