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Russell (W.H.) The Atlantic Telegraph, chromolithographed pictorial title and 24 tinted lithographed plates after Robert Dudley lithographed chart, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, loose, ownership inscription ‘A.R. Thomson R.A., to front endpaper, original green gilt decorated cloth on upper cover and in blind on lower, rebacked with original spine laid-down, front endpaper, title-page, contents and first page of text loose but held together with gutta-percha, [1866]; Heath (Thomas) The Twentieth Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy, second editon, 22 colour plates, original decorated blue cloth, Edinborough & London, 1908; Lecornu (J.) La Navigation Aérienne, illustrated throughout, original gilt-decorated green cloth, a.e.g., Paris [1905]; Glaisher (James, Camille Flammarion, W. De Fonvielle and Gaston Tissandier. Travels in the Air, 11 of 12 lithographs, illustrated throughout with wood engravings, contemporary half calf, black leather lettering label, gilt, small damp stain to corner of frontispiece, rubbed, 1871, v.s. (4)