YOUNG MAN'S BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE by Thomas Tegg — 1st / 1st, 1860 PIRATED COPY

  A Young Man's Book of Knowledge:  Containing a Familiar View of the Importance of Religion, The Works of Nature, Logic, Eloquence, the Passions, Matter and Motion, Magnetism, Mechanical Powers, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Optics, Acoustics, Electricity, Galvanism, Geometry, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, History, &c. First American Edition, from the Twentieth London Edition Publisher: Published by Leary & Getz, Philadelphia (1860)Wonderful tome on a book of knowledge geared for young men on a variety of subjects. The book was not legally introduced to the United States through U.S. copyright laws. The rare copies available have thus been pirated. This copy was published for the first time in the United States, from London, in the 1860s. An overall very well preserved copy. Dark red embossed boards; 404 pages and illustrated. The boards and binding are solid and tight, with little shelf-wear and small spots of discoloration to the boards. The pages are crisp and clean save fo