Wonderful inventions :. from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable.
John Timbs (1801-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3175226
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 400 p.. ill.. 19cm. Former shelfmark: F4A.a25. Provenance: Inscribed in ink on upper pastedown: "Calke Abbey Library"; nineteenth-century small armorial book plate pasted over (lettered "Calke Abbey Library"). Also inscribed transversely on title page: "Calke Abbey Library 1868". All associated with John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-86). Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full green 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)