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London: Addey & Co, 1853. Hardcover. See description. 2nd Edition. DESCRIPTION: Quarto, blue and grey cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gilt, (frontispiece and four inserted plates; original unprinted tissue-guards intact), all edges gilt, illustrated with five full-page mounted color plates (reproducing water-colours by Wehnert, Absolon, Lee and Weir). Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Front and back boards are clean but worn and corns and top of spine. Back board coming away from spin at lower end. Endpaper cracked. Pages clean with a few minor tears with a few pages loose at their lower end Pages 108. BOOK RESUME: Water-Colour Drawings by Edward Wehnert, John Absolon, William Lee, and Harrison Weir, Members of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.
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The Village Queen Or Summer In The Country: Water-Colour Drawings by Edward Wehnert, John Absolon, William Lee, and Harrison Weir, Members of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.
by MILLER, Thomas
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Voices Across the Sea: The Story of Deep Sea Cable-Laying 1858-1958
by CLARKE, Arthur C
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London: Frederick Muller, 1958. Hardcover. See description. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red leather, gilt lettering to spine. Gilt pages edges on all sides, decorative endpapers, 24 Illustrations Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Clean bright leather boards with minor wear at top and bottom of spine and corners. Very tight binding. Clean intact endpapers with clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Na. Pages (x), 220. AUTHOR: The author tells of one of the great engineering achievements in communications, the laying of the submarine cable, from the first crude attempts in 1858 to the development of the telephone cable in 1956. He covers the pioneering days of Cyrus Field, Morse, the scientists, Lord Kelvin, Oliver Heaviside when fabulous fortunes depended on what was little better than a thread beneath the ocean, to todays scientific frontiers within the laboratory.
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