The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art. Exhibiting the most important Improvements and Discoveries of the Past Year in Mechanics and the Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy. Electricity, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Meteorology and Astronomy. By John Timbs, F.S.A. With fine Engraved Frontispiece and Vignette. Fcap. 5s. cloth.
This work, published annually, records the proceedings of the principal Scientific Societies, and is indispensable for such as wish to possess a faithful picture of the latest novelties of Science and the Arts.
‘Ably and honestly compiled.’—Athenæum.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The Industry, Science, and Art of the Age; or, the International Exhibition of 1862, Popularly Described from its Origin to its Close; including Details of the Principal Objects and Articles Exhibited. By John Timbs, F.S.A., Author of ‘Curiosities of Science,’ &c. In a closely-printed volume, pp. 362, price 6s. cloth elegant; illustrated with a fine Photograph from negatives specially retained for this work by the London Stereoscopic Company.
‘A very timely, useful, and interesting compendium and memento of the Exhibition of 1862.’—Builder.
‘Here is just as much preserved about the Exhibition as, when it has been swept away, any one would care to know.’—Morning Advertiser.
School-days of Eminent Men. Containing Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, from the reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria; and School and College Lives of the most celebrated British Authors, Poets, and Philosophers; Inventors and Discoverers; Divines, Heroes, Statesmen, and Legislators. By John Timbs, F.S.A. Second Edition, entirely Revised and partly Re-written. With a Frontispiece by John Gilbert, 13 Views of Public Schools, and 20 Portraits by Harvey. Fcap. 5s. handsomely bound in cloth.