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HUNT, Robert (1807-1887). Hunt's Researches on Light.

Estimate: $200 - $400

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HUNT, Robert (1807-1887). Hunt's Researches on Light.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844.

Researches on light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays; embracing all the known photographic processes and new discoveries in the art by Robert Hunt.

vii, 303, 32 pages.

Bound in blind stamped cloth, red leather spine label, gilt spine title.


H: 8 3/4 W: 6 in.

With “P. B. Goddard” in ink on t.p. With bookplate, “P. B. Goddard, M.D.” on front pastedown endpapers.

Condition

Very good. Lacks frontis.

Overall Dimensions
Width: 6.00

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