None Stated — Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History and General Literature.

London, Thomas Boys, 1821. First edition. Hardback. A charming Regency cabinet of curiosities, filled with mechanical marvels, scientific oddities, and entertaining glimpses into the world of knowledge. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, rebacked with later paper, endpapers renewed.  First edition.  Illustrated with eight of eleven plates. Bound without plates, V, VI, IX, and X. Collated.  A Regency miscellany gathering together hundreds of curious and entertaining subjects. Contents include discussions of the automaton chess player, perpetual motion, the kaleidoscope, ancient and modern prisons, extraordinary mechanical inventions, the wealth of the Romans, remarkable longevity, submarine gardening, the steam engine, and numerous curious natural and scientific phenomena. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, rebacked with later paper, endpapers renewed. Externally, sound. Very slight warping to boards. Soiling and rubbing to original boards, partially obscuring the text. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, with loss to paper and slight loss to boards at corners. Internally, firmly bound. Bound without four plates. Pages generally bright and clean, if characteristically age toned with one or two light spots and handling marks to fore edge. Offsetting to contents pages and first few leaves from loosely inserted ephemera. Previous owner's faint ink inscription to head of first page of text. Slight offsetting from plates to facing pages. Good Only . Ill.: None Stated. Good Only .