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    By John Henry Belville
    London   Richard and John Edward Taylor
    8" by 5" 56pp
    A very scarce first edition publication on the history and use of the thermometer as a meteorological instrument.
    By John Henry Belville

    1850 A Manual of the Thermometer

    London   Richard and John Edward Taylor
    8" by 5" 56pp
    A very scarce first edition publication on the history and use of the thermometer as a meteorological instrument.
    £50.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 785F37
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    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    The very scarce first edition of this work.

    Containing the history of the use of the instrument in question, alongside an essay on terrestrial radiation, and 'general outline of the climate of the eastern part of England'. With vignette woodcut illustrations throughout.

    The work of John Henry Belville, an assistant astronomical observer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and author of a similar study entitled 'A Manual of the Barometer' published the year before this work.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original paper wraps. Ink inscription and spotting to front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Some foxing to first few pages, remaining pages generally bright and clean.

    Very Good

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