Talks About Science

London: Griffith & Farran, [1882]. Presumed first edition. Small octavo in stamped and silver & gold gilt cloth-backed boards; xv, 239 pages.; 31p appendix; 20 cm Hinges slightly weak but intact, board edges and spine extremities mildly worn, mild foxing to prelims and endpapers; else tight and clean. Binding tight. Overall about very good(-). Hardcover.

Handomely done illustrations to front board. 31-page bookseller-catalogue to rear. Bookseller stamp of S Hogg Charing Cross road to front pastedown. Contents: Mechanism of sensation.--The starlit sky.--Pre-historic man.--Volcanoes and coral reefs.--Atoms and molecules.--Ice and the Ice Age.--Two life histories.--Coal.--Sermons in stones.--How the earth is weighed and measured.--Depths of ocean.--Lobsters.--The common frog. Science. Geology. Essays.