Buy this book on-line Holmes, Oliver Wendell : The Stereoscope And The StereographPhillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston, 1859
8vo. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume III, No. 22, June, 1859. The first appearance of the author's important essay. From the opening paragraph, "Democritus of Abdera, commonly known as the Laughing Philosopher, probably because he did not consider the study of truth inconsistent with a cheerful countenance, believed and taught that all bodies were continually throwing off certain images like themselves, which subtle emanations, striking on our bodily organs, gave rise to our sensations." Housed in protective mylar report cover.. Book. Book Condition: VG. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Holmes, Oliver Wendell : The Stereoscope And The Stereograph. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, antiquarian books, out-of-print books, livres d'occasion and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |