Lot 334
RECREATIVE SCIENCE
Auction: 24 November 2001 at 11:00 GMT
Description
a record and remembrances of intellectual observation Volume 1(iii)...3 volumes, black and white illustrations in text, half calf, marbled boards, spines decorated gilt in compartments, spines rubbed, tear across title and first 18 pages of volume 3 (no loss of text), 8vo., London, 1860-62
The intellectual observer: review of natural history, micorscopic research, and relative science Vol 1 (12)...12 volumes, colour frontis. to each volume (bound after contents list in volumes 3, 8 & 10), numerous colour plates throughout, half calf, cloth boards, spines rubbed and faded, 8vo., London, 1863-68
The student and intellectual observer of science, literature and art volume 1(5)...5 volumes, colour frontis. to each volume (bound after contents list in volumes 3 and 5), numerous colour plates throughout, half calf, cloth boards, spines rubbed and faded, volume 5 lacking titlepage, 8vo., London, 1868-71 and 3 other volumes (20)
Footnote
Note: This prestigious Victorian periodical began asRecreative Science and continued under the subsequent titles ofIntellectual Observer andThe Student and Intellectual Observer. It covered a wide range of subjects and published many significant contributions from eminent scientists such as Webb, Herschel, Cobbold, Tegetmeier, etc. Thecatalogue iilustration shows the King Penguins which arrived at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens in 1865.