Principles of Physics and Meteorology

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. Very Good-. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. First American Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],xii,[25]-635,[1],[18](ads)pp.; chromolithographed frontispiece and one leaf of plates, extensive text illus. throughout. Boards rather significantly scuffed with exposure at corners and chipping at spine ends, textblock lightly toned, offsetting to title page from exposure to frontispiece, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

An uncommon Americanzied edition of the German physicist's treatise, with chapters added on the electro-magnetic telegraph, electrotpye, and steam engine.