Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
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Lot 394
[BREWING]. MATHEWS, Charles George and Francis Edward LOTT....
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[BREWING]. MATHEWS, Charles George and Francis Edward LOTT. The Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-House. London: Bemrose & Sons, 1889. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece, 21 lithographed plates, some in color, numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Original gilt-lettered maroon cloth (spine and rear cover sunned, light wear to front joint and extremities). Provenance: Herbert Spencer (rubberstamp on title-page; see inscription below). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO SCIENTIST AND POLYMATH HERBERT SPENCER (1820-1903). Spencer was a notable English intellect in the 19th century and is credited with coining the term ?survival of the fittest? after reading Charles Darwin?s On the Origin of Species (1859).
