The Beauties and Wonder of Nature and Science: A Collection of Curious, Interesting & Valuable information, for the Instruction and Improvement of the Enquiring Mind. With Numerous Illustrative Engravings. London: Hutchinson, [1850] Pp iv, 280. Green cloth boards, design blind embossed to covers, gilt lettering and imagery to spine. A fine bright copy.

Illustrated with almost 100 engravings.

“The Editor of the following pages has added some of the brightest conceptions of man’s vast ingenuity, which he has endeavored to describe, faintly, but truly.”