Description and condition: Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 12mo, pp xvi 344, index, b/w illustrations. Good to very good, slight wear to spine ends and corners, school prize plate on FFEP, crack developing to back hinge, binding remains secure, else nice clean pages. In good dustcover with smaller tears and chipping, now protected.
Contents: A Course of Six Lectures 'Adapted to a Juvenile Auditory' Delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913. 2nd edition, with an addendum on recent discoveries. The starting point, our earth. The length of our voyage and the start through the air. Journeying by telescope. Visits to the moon and planets. Visit to the sun. Visits to the stars. Addendum (1925). |
