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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A truly RARE copy of The Philosophical Magazine 1810 Vol. XXXVI in exceptionally good internal condition throughout. A firm binding though which would greatly benefit from an rebinding. No loose or damaged / marked pages with no foxing apart from a little light browning to plates to rear (a different paper used) and off-setting on title page. Clean pebbled black Rexine boards with remains of old leather labels to spine. Just a little insignificant offsetting and dustiness to prelims. Plain brown end-papers with National Lending Library for Science and Technology plate to front along with Deleted stamp. No other Library markings can be found apart from a neat impressed (non-ink) stamp to title page from the Athenaeum Library 1873. Consisting 476 pages (including Index) plus Plates 1-5, 8-11 (note, no plates appear to have been removed and as the plates appear to have been set to different type/formats it is not clear if plates 6&7 were ever present). Plates include: Design for a Cast Iron Tunnel to cross the Thames; a Musical Tuning Table by Musicus Ignoramus, 1809; Camp Telegraph and cross sections of the Great Bog in 'King's Kildare' Ireland. Apart from those topics already mentioned there is a wealth of diverse and interesting material including: Brande on Urine, North American meteorites, (on the Thames Tunnel, Marc Brunel says the plan has already been settled), Salem Harris on Solar and Lunar Attraction, Hauy on Crystallography, Journey to Siberia, Comets, Dublin Cow Pox Institution, a new metallic thermometer by Richard Walker of Oxford, the purity of the Gold Standard, etc., etc. A mine of early science and discovery. Difficult to find on the open market. 40% price reduction now applied.