Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2256Location: BostonDate / Time: November 21, 2004 11:00AM
Description:
(Scientific Discovery, 19th Century), Three titles, Harrison, J. B., Some Observations on the Contamination of Water by the Poison of Lead: and its Effects on the Human Body, London: John Churchill, 1852, original cloth in later half morocco slip case; Crookes, William, On the Discovery of the Metal Thallium, London: Taylor and Francis, 1863, original wraps in later slip case; Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, Four Lectures on Relativity and Space, New York, 1923, first edition, cloth, 8vo, (all good).
Estimate $300-400