Description
Underground or Life Below the Surface: Incidents and Accidents Beyond the Light of Day; Startling Adventures in All Parts of the World; Mines and the Mode of Working Them; Under-Currents of Society; Gambling and its Horrors; Caverns and Their Mysteries; The Dark Ways of Wickedness; Prisons and Their Secrets; Down in the Depths of the Sea; Strange Stories of the Detection of Crime, by Thomas W. Knox, J.B. Burr and Hyde, Hartford, 1873, 942pp, leather, 6 x 9", 8vo Fair condition. Staining and wear to front and rear boards. Edges are scuffed and tips are bumped. Significant cracking to joints; boards attached to binding by cording. First compartment is lacking, but all others are present and legible. Provenance on flyleaf. Frontispiece opposite title page. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Includes illustrations. Please see photos. "The chief intent of this work is the plain, sufficient, and entertaining description of the marvelous lives not only of miners, but of all whose lot or choice it is to delve and dare underground. The narratives of the book are not merely dry relations of scientific facts freighted with unnecessary technical terms, as might possibly be suspected from a cursory glance at the list of the topics treated, but statements of most important and curious deeds, and descriptions of hidden localities and lives, interspersed with lively anecdotes and incidents with souls in them, it is believed, and the greater part herein for the first time given to the public. The table of contents will suffice to show how wide and varied has been the author's scope of observation and comment, covering all the most important parts of the globe." FORN-MSB-0224-TUB0010-JC237
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