Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal, circa 1840.

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Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal, circa 1840.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769464534

The manuscript was written by an unknown author who was probably a male student in England in the 1840s (he mentions an article in a 1837 magazine on ballooning). In it, the author writes generally on several different topics including: pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and Sir Humphry Davy, and coal. It contains many hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations (some in color). The volume has many blank pages.

1 bound volume, 26 cm., 129 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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