History, Life, Customs And Curiosity Through Images

4 volumesHistory, life, customs and curiosity through images, pamphlets and documents or popular descriptions of modern inventions. (1450-1900).Publisher: Librairie de la curiosité et des beaux arts 1927-28, ParisPublication date: 1927Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie, undated (1857), 4 volumes in 4 vol. large in 8 of 743 -703 -752 -744 pages, period bindings in half shagreen syrah. Spine with raised bands decorated with gilt irons. Popular science work illustrated with numerous and very beautiful black woodcuts in and out of the text. Volume I: Steam engine, Steamboats, Locomotive and railways, Locomobiles, Electric machine, Lightning rods, Volta pile, Electromagnetism. Volume II: Aerial, electrical and submarine telegraphy, Transatlantic cable, Electroplating, Electrochemical gilding and silver plating, Aerostats, Etherization. Volume III: Photography, Stereoscope, War powders, Ancient and modern artillery, Portable firearms, Armored vessels, Drainage, Fish farming. Volume IV: Lighting, Heating, Ventilation, Lighthouses, Artesian wells, Diving bell, Gas engines, Aluminum, Planet Neptune. Good condition.