FARADAY, Michael. Edited By William Crookes

A COURSE OF SIX LECTURES ON THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE To Which is Added a Lecture on Platinum

London: Charles Griffin, 1865. Hard Cover. Very Good. Item #07792

A Very Good hardback Second Edition in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering spine. Mild chips spine tips. Hinges cracked and archivally repaired. Owner bookplate front paste-down. Sm. 8vo. viii, 208 pp. These lectures were given before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1860-61 and constitute the origin of the Christmas lectures for young people that are still given there every year and bear his name.

Price: $500.00