Large 8vo. xv + (1) + 256pp, some wood-engraved text ills throughout. Publisher’s cloth, recased. Excellent account of the subject with an excellent bibliography. Includes a comprehensive description of the lightning conductors installed in the Brussels Hotel de Ville by Melsens and in the Palace of Westminster, London, by Sir William Snow Harris, who had begun his career fitting out ships of the Royal Navy with lightning conductors, an account of which is also included here.
GBP 180.00
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