Recreations in Science
$125.00
- Publisher: London: Effingham Wilson
- Date: 1830
- Condition: good
Recreations in Science, or, a Complete Series of Rational Amusement. Pebbled green cloth with stamped leather title morocco in spine. Folded engraved frontispiece. One figure in frontispiece depicts the Chess Player Automaton (The Turk) and the compartment from which a person would operated the automaton. Frontispiece effected by some foxing and partially detached, page edges darkened, a some pages with spotting. Spine worn with weak hinges.