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Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S.
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, A.
Language: English
Published by Macmillian and Co., London, 1873
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Seller: Yesterday's Book Shop, CORVALLIS, OR, U.S.A.Yesterday's Book Shop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt on spine. Board show spotting and soiling, front board has stains which include a drink ring and possible moisture marks on the outside edge of both boards. Internal binding has some issues: hinges are cracked front… and rear boards and text pages have some pulling though all pages are attached and secure. Frontispiece still has tissue guard and the foldout map and the rear of the book is still present. Pages are tone due to age and there is some spotting and foxing. Front pastedown contains the bookplate contains a personal bookplate from the private library of W. G. Stout and backside of front end page has a bit of writing in the corner.
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Life And Letters Of James David Forbes, F.r.s., D.c.l., Ll. D., Late Principal Of The United College In The University Of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell;tait, Peter Guthrie;adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes ...
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S., D.C.L., Ll. D., Late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews ...
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life And Letters Of James David Forbes, F.r.s., D.c.l., Ll. D., Late Principal Of The United College In The University Of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell;tait, Peter Guthrie;adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life And Letters Of James David Forbes, F.r.s., D.c.l., Ll. D., Late Principal Of The United College In The University Of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell;tait, Peter Guthrie;adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life And Letters Of James David Forbes, F.r.s., D.c.l., Ll. D., Late Principal Of The United College In The University Of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell;tait, Peter Guthrie;adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Published by Macmillan, 1873
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Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Add to basketCondition: Poor. Leather bound, with gold detailing. Marbled effect edging and inside cover. Ridged spine. Spine and cover in fair condition. Binding in good condition. With some browning on pages. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust ja…cket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1350grams, ISBN.
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes .
Shairp, John Campbell|Tait, Peter Guthrie|Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S., D.C.L., Ll. D., Late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell|Tait, Peter Guthrie|Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Gebunden. Condition: New.
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Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.Books Puddle
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Condition: New. pp. 612, Map.
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Published by MacMillan, London, 1873
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Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Full calf binding with gilt stamp of the Edinburgh Institution, morocco label, marbled eps and edges. Spine rubbed, spine ends diminished, corner wear. Prize bookplate. Portraits, map, illustrations, frontis, errata. Xiii, [1], 598pp. Slight occasional foxing.; Large 8vo 9" - 10"…tall.
Published by London: Macmillan, 1873., 1873
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Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xiii, 577 pp; maps; plates [4 are mounted photographs]. Original cloth. Slant to binding. Inner hinges cracked. Ink stamp of "Clinton Hall Association, N.Y., for the Use of the Mercantile Library" on the title page and on recto of all plates (including on recto of photograph…s). Good. First Edition.
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LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES DAVID FORBES, F.R.S. WITH PORTRAITS, MAP, AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Forbes, David. . Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie and Adams-Reilly, A.
Published by London: Macmillan and Co 1873, 1873
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Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, United KingdomGage Postal Books
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Add to basketFine leather bound, first edition hardback complete with seven plates and a folding plate of the Mer de Glace at the end. The book is bound in a full calf prize binding of the University of Edinburgh with gilt borders and device and marbled endpapers and page edges; the binding has some light wear and remains handsome and sound.… The endpapers have a prize plate and a later owner's inscription. There is some light foxing throughout with the plates and some pages more heavily affected. Frontispiece, xii +[1] + 576.
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LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES DAVID FORBES, F.R.S.
(Forbes). Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie and Adams-Reilly, A.
Published by London: Macmillan and Co, 1873
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Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United KingdomFrancis Edwards ABA ILAB
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Add to basket1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 598pp. + [ii] adverts. Port. frontis., vignette t.p., 2 ports., 4 tipped in ills. from photos., folding map. Some light marginal browning and sporadic spotting, hinges tender but firm, from the library of Jack Meadows, original gilt lettered cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, sl. wear to corners, sm. nic…k to cloth towards head of upper board, head of spine bumped with sm. split, unopened in parts. James David Forbes (18091868) Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismolog inventor of the seismometer in 1842. Additional postage may be necessary US$73.
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Published by MacMillan and Co, London, 1873
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Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good -. First edition. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 577 pages. Red cloth. Fold out map in rear. 7 plates. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Partially cracked front hinge. Foxing. Some rubbing to the edges of the cloth. Two small gouge marks on back cover. Forbes is known for the data he collected,…Forbes data, measurements of the boiling point of water at different elevations.
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Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1873
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. First Edition. Thick octavo (22cm); publisher's terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown glazed endpapers; xiii,[3],598,[2](ads)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of plates including four original photographs and folding map bound in rear. Cloth a bit… worn and dust-soiled, scattered foxing to textblock edges, else Very Good and sound. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown together with his original Quaritch invoice dated 1953 laid in.
Language: English
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- First Edition
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, Macmillan, London, 1873. Thick 8vo, xiv, 577p, 2p ads. VG in original cloth gilt, with new endpapers at some time. Complete with folding map (by Adams-Reilly), & eight illustrations including 4 mounted photographs (two of the Mer de Glace, Chamonix). Important biograph…y of the famous alpine mountaineer and glaciologist. DNB - 'He was the first to study scientifically the phenomena of glaciers'.
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Published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1873
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Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United KingdomBarter Books Ltd
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Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketCondition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Crack to hinge. Ex College Library. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xiii, 577pp + plates. 7 plates + fold-out map. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Brown hardback tooled leather cover.
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S.
Shairp, John Campbell, Peter Guthrie Tait and A. Adams-Reilly
Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1873
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Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United KingdomMcNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xiii, [i], 577, [3, ads] + frontispiece, 2 other engraved portraits, 4 mounted photographic plates, and one folding map. Original red pebble-grain cloth, ruled in black, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. Occasional foxing, particularly to plate mounts, one gathering partly sprung. Extremities a lit…tle rubbed and bumped, a few spots to spine. Booklabel of R.D.W. Forrest to pastedown, his ownership inscription (1878) and a later one to half-title. An important biography of the pioneering Scottish glaciologist (1809-1868). The issue (presumably earlier) without the index.
Published by Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, 2011
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+. Black fabric boards with the title in silver lettering across the front cover and down the spine. There is a matte color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title in embossed metallic red lettering on the front cover and down a black spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are a… bright orange. Pages: (7), viii-ix, (1), 1-118. Profusely illustrated with full-color and true-tone images. "'Peace and friendship.' This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represents an ideal of interactions between American or European governments and Native American tribes. This book presents the stories of people and events behind the medals." Contents are as follows: Searching for the stories behind the medals / Robert B. Pickering -- Displaying the source of the sacred : shell gorgets, peace medals, and the accessing of supernatural powers / F. Kent Reilly III -- Tomás Prieto's al Mérito Spanish Indian peace medals / Barry D. Tayman, Tony Lopez, and Skyler Liechty -- The Indian peace medals of Louis XV / John W. Adams -- British medals depicted in Cherokee portraits of 1762 / Duane H. King -- Washington oval peace medals / George J. Fuld -- French donative medals of Louis Philippe I / Bruce W. Arnold -- Keokuk's peace medals : mirrors onto a fractured era / Frank H. Goodyear III.
BUILDING - WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED 'THE BRITISH BUILDER'; Published Every Month at 33, Tothill Street, Westminster, London, S.W. 1. - A PRACTICAL JOURNAL FOR ARCHITECTS, QUANTITY SURVEYORS, BUILDERS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, Heating, Lighting and Ventilation Engineers, Sanitary Engineers, Decorators, Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Material, and Estate Managers. - FIFTH VOLUME (Vol. 5), JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1930.
No Editor stated / 'BUILDING', Architectural Magazine ('The British Builder') / J. H. Bennetts; Oliver P. Bernard; R. V. Boughton; G. Basedon Butt; A. Trystan Edwards; J. Millar; Prof. C, H, Reilly; F. E. Towndrow; E. G. Warland; a.o. (Principal Authors and Correspondants) / Holden Adams & Pearson; H. WV. Ashley; Winston Newman; Sir Frank Baines; Sir Herbert Baker; J. Stanley Beard; Brierley & Rutherford; Sir John Burnet & Partners; Campbell Jones Sons & Smithers; C. W. Clark; Elcock & Sutcliffe; P. D. Hepworth; Mewes & Davis; Sir Giles Gilbert Scott; Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie; Perca S. Worthington; a.m.o. ('Architects' Works Illustrated'): [F. J. PARSON]
Published by London; 33, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.I (no Printer or Publisher stated); 1930., 1930
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Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, GermanyC O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany .
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Add to basket(3) pages 'Index Supplement [Fitfth Volume, January to December 1930], Building, December 1930'; 564 annually counted pages on medium-glossy paper; fully illustrated throughout with photographs of buildings or their details and ground and floor plans; 8 multiple (partly huge) folded plans and views ('Baker Street Station Buildin…gs', 'Builders' Administration', 'New Olympial Hall', 'New Headquarters Martins Bank Liverpool', 'New Midland Bank, new Headquarters, London', 'Liverpool Cathedral Organ Cases', 2x 'Thames House Westmister London', 'New Masonic Peace Memorial, Queen Street, London'). - Gilt-titled 'olive-grey' cloth-binding of the period with red-sparkled edges; 4to.(ca. 30 x 23 x 4 cm; ca. 2,5 kg.). *** [Verlängerter ERWEITERTER SOMMERVERKAUF / Ongoing EXPANDED SUMMER-SALE: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Donnerstag, den 30.07.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Thursday, July 30; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 300,-] --- FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE ANNUAL OF THE AS IMPORTANT AS NOWADAYS RARE ARCHITECTURAL MONTHLY; CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL, Fifth Year in 12 monthly Issues complete. - Cloth-binding minimally used, last two sheets with short central tear, corners of last page slightly dusty; A BEAUTIFEL COPY.
Life and Letters of James David Forbes .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes F.R.S. D.C.L. Ll. D. Late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Seller: Antiquariaat Schierenberg, Amsterdam, NetherlandsAntiquariaat Schierenberg
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Add to basketLondon, Macmillan, 1873. Thick 8vo. xiv, 598 pp., one advertisement leaf; two portraits of Forbes (frontispiece, tissue-guarded; engraved portrait as a child, title page vignette), and one of Lady Forbes and one of Sir William Forbes; one folded engraved, partly coloured map of "the Mer de Glace of Chamonix" and four early mount…ed photographs mainly depicting glaciers; several text engravings. Publisher's burgundy cloth with embossed boards and gilt title on the spine. Black endpapers. = First edition. This work includes four early photos of the Alps. James David Forbes (1808-1868) was a famous Scottish scientist and explorer, whose views on the theory of glaciers conflicted with Tyndell's. Appendix A contains his reply to Tindall. Appendix D is a complete list of his writings. In 1841 he made the first British ascent of the Jungfrau. He published Norway and its Glaciers (1853), Occasional papers on the theory of Glaciers (1859), etc. Boards a bit worn, scattered light foxing, otherwise a very good copy.
Life and Letters of James David Forbes .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Seller: Biblios, frankfurt am main, HESSE, GermanyBiblios
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes F.R.S. D.C.L. Ll. D. Late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Life and Letters of James David Forbes F.R.S. D.C.L. Ll. D. Late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews .
Shairp, John Campbell; Tait, Peter Guthrie; Adams-Reilly, Anthony
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Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1873
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketFine Binding. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A handsomely bound, first edition copy of James David Forbes's biography, written by John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, and A. Adams-Reilly. A first edition copy of this biography of the life of James David Forbes, written by John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tai…t, and A. Adams-Reilly. James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St Andrews in 1859. This copy is bound in full calf with beautiful gilt designs and lettering along the spine. It contains 6 plates, some of which are photographs, and a folding map to the rear. The previous owner's ink signature can be found on the verso of the front free-endpaper, as well as to the recto of the rear free-endpaper. Handsomely bound in full calf with gilt design and lettering on the spine. Externally, minor shelf wear and rubbing, and spine label has a small tear. Previous owner's signature can be found on verso of front free-endpaper as well as to the recto of the rear free-endpaper. Internally, front hinge is starting but remains firm, otherwise firmly bound. First few front free-endpapers contain scattered spotting and a tidemark, and last few pages contain the odd spot, but otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
