Lot 189 - Practicus; Pyrotechny, or, The Art of Making

Practicus; Pyrotechny, or, The Art of Making Fireworks at Little Cost.., Ward, Lock, and Tyler, London, nd c.1873, with fold out illustrated frontispiece, 197 gilt-edged pages plus preliminaries, index and fold-out diagrams, inset illustrated within text throughout, bound in pictorial gilt-tooled red cloth, approx 18 x 12cm; together with; Snow Harris, Sir W; Rudimentary Electricity: Being a Concise Exposition of the General Principles of Electrical Science, third edition, John Weale, 1853, illustrated frontispiece and further illustrations within text, 195 pages, gilt tooled softcover binding with label to front, approx 18 x 10.5cm; Hasluck, Paul N.; Metalworking. A Book of Tools, Materials, and Processes for the Handyman.., Cassell and Company Ltd, London, nd c.1904, 760 pages with inset illustrations throughout, bound in pictorial blue cloth with gilt title to spine; Loftus, William R.; Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits by Sykes's Hydrometer.., printed by Ford Shapland & Co, London, nd circa 1870, 103 pages of tables followed by 120 illustrated pages of equipment with prices, bound in gilt-tooled brown cloth; and Eissler, Manuel; The Cyanide Process for the Extraction of Gold, Crosby Lockwood and Son, London 1902, photographic frontispiece, 184 pages with plates and fold-out pages, bound in gilt-tooled burgundy cloth, approx 20 x 14.5cm (5)

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