The Emporium of Arts & Sciences. Vol. 2 comprising issue no. 7, Nov. 1812 - issue no. 12 April, 1813 by Redman, John Coxe, M.D

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Philadelpha, PA: Joseph Delaplaine, 1812. Good. Half Calf, with red leather label and marbled boards. Minor foxing. Does affect text and plates. Hinges cracked. Piece of spine missing at heel. Engraved frontispiece title page. A fascinating compendium of early American scientific notes and queries.

Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, 1812. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, maroon cloth. Good condition. Original text rebound in maroon buckram. Corner missing from title page; foxing throughout. Text complete, including all Plates. 480 pp.Contents deal mostly with commerce and manufacturing (stoves, shoemaking, sails and rigging, etc.) with a long and complete serialization of a treatise on wines and winemaking. Also, serializations on spontaneous human combustion, a theory of the Earth,, etc., etc.

Philadelphia: Joseph Delaplaine [volumes 1 and 2]; Kimber & Richardson [volume 3], 1812. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved title pages in each volume, 48 plates (one on thin paper engraved on glass, one folding which is trimmed tight at the caption); 3 prospectuses (one for the original series and 2 for the New Series bound in (6, 8, and 14 pages respectively); contemporary full calf, red morocco labels on spines; moderate foxing, especially on the plates; scuffed and rubbed, but sound. The last 2 volumes of the New Series are not present. A nice set of the first three volumes of this important early American science periodical, rarely found in good condition with all the plates. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Coxe became editor with the first number, but in the first volume of the new series, present, here, Thomas Cooper became the editor. American Imprints 25176, for the first two volumes, and 28226 for Cooper's editorship in 1813. Rink 62, citing all five… Read More