I have here for sale a book entitled THE BEAUTIES AND WONDERS OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: A Collection of Curious, Interesting and Valuable Information, for the Instruction and Improvement of the Enquiring Mind, edited by Linney Gilbert.  No publication date but online research suggests 1840.  Published by G L Hutchinson, London.  There are 58 illustrations in b/w arranged over 44 plates including a small vignette to the title page - Great Wall of China, Greenwich Railway, "Times" Printing Machine, Eddystone Lighthouse, double plate showing Comparative Heights of Buildings.  

Full tree calf hardboards with gilt decorative border.  Both boards are detached and there is no spine leather.  Pages sunned with a few spots here and there.  Binding block a little loose.  Both free endpapers are missing.  The rest of the endpaper is marbled.  280 pages, 22 x 13 cm.

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Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK.  If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.