HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL - Soundings from the Atlantic

London, Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1864, First Edition. Orig. Blindstamped Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 468 pp. The first English Edition (London) appeared in the same year as the Boston ed. A sought after essay collection, with titles like The Stereoscope, The human wheel, Sun painting and sun sculpture etc. Some scuffing at title, top and foot of spine damaged, spine faded. Also some foxing and 1 quire slightly loosening, hence the price.. (the much rarer 1St. UK edition) Holmes is credited the invention of the strereoscope. Fair/No Jacket.