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ix, 502 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear dated January 1860. Folding diagram. 20x12.5 cm. (7¾x4¾"), original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers stamped in blind, pale brown clay-glazed endpapers. Second Edition, Second Issue, with "Fifth Thousand" on title page.

Scarce second edition of one of the most important scientific works of any century. The 1250 copies of the first edition of 1859 were sold out almost immediately and a reprint the same year was also quickly exhausted. This second edition, identified "Fifth Thousand" on the title page, incorporated some corrections and changes by the author. Binder's ticket of "Edmonds & Remnants, London" to rear pastedown. Freeman binding variant "a" with upright of "L" in London over right-hand upright of "H" in John. Label from Friedrich Klincksieck in Paris on front pastedown. Freeman 376.