Wonderful inventions :. from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable.
John Timbs (1801-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3160637
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 400 p.. ill.. 19cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf: "G.N. Curzon January 1870" [i.e. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Viscount Scarsdale (1859-1925)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full red grained cloth, blind fillets forming a border, gilt pictorial centre piece (ship), gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
John Timbs (1801-1875)