Mudie, Robert — The Air

London, Thomas Ward & Co, 1835. Hardcover. Brown stamped boards with gilt spine lettering; viii, 280 pp, 16 pp; color illustrated frontispiece and title page. Frontispiece is "Scene on the Mountain Tops" Baxter's oil colour printing from the original paints by W. Fowler. Title page illustration is "Air Bird". Includes a preface by Robert Mudie. Contents include: Section 1: Preliminary Remarks. Section II: State of Air. Section III: Relation Between Heat and the State of Bodies, Especially the Air. Section IV:Composition and Structure of the Air. Section V: Weight, or Pressure, and Volume of the Atmosphere. Section VI: Evaporation. Section VII: Separation of Moisture From the Air. Section VIII: Conclusion. Binding copy only in need of repair, spine is torn, front cover is unnattached, ffep has a large section cut out, light foxing to frontis and title page, age toning to pages as expected with age but text is otherwise clear.