FIGUIER, Louis. Les Merveilles de la Science, or popular des - Lot 112

FIGUIER, Louis. Les Merveilles de la Science, or popular description of modern inventions. Paris, Librairie Furne, Jouvet et Cie, s. d. (1867). 4 volumes in 4 vols. in-4. Black half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons. 743, 703, 752 and 744 pages, numerous illustrations. Some scuffing, edges rubbed. "I undertake to recount some of the marvels achieved, in the order of science, by modern genius" (Preface). Four volumes whose aim is to explain and retrace the history of recent major inventions. Fish farming, aerostats, the steam engine, photography, the locomotive, artillery and the transatlantic cable: no fewer than 32 fields are made accessible to the layman, with numerous illustrations on wood. With an honorary bill from a pupil at the Jean-Jacques Rousseau school in Libourne. An important testimony to the history of technology.