Lot 401

ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON GAS-LIGHT, EXHIBITING A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION





Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
£275
Description
of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas. London: for R. Ackermann, 1815. First edition, 8vo, [ii], iii, [v], [i],186; 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding), modern calf, red morocco labels, uncut, slightly spotted




