Memoirs Abbots Old Bellevue by Southall James P C (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue hardcover book with red lettering to spine and front. ix, 394 pages. No marks in text. Clean and tight. Front endpaper has the name "Barbara C. Trigg Brown, 1955" and on the Title page, between the author and publisher, is written "It was my privilege to know him when he was a wonderful old gentleman. He recorded a program for me after the book was published." Bumps, rubs and chips to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue hardcover with burgundy lettering to front and spine. 394 pages, indexed. Black and white frontis of William Richardson Abbot, Principal of Bellevue High School. Previous owner's name sticker to front endpaper. Spine a bit faded. Slight bumps and chips to corners and spine ends. Very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st. 394pp.incl.index; HB blue w/red; rubbed w/spine sunned; lt.wear on corners; PONft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. The Abbots of Old Bellevue in Bedford County, Virginia.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with black lettering (issued without dust jacket). ix, 394pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this chroicle of this genteel family of Bedford County, Virginia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. ix, [3], 394, [2] pages. Frontis illustrations. In Memoriam Illustration. Occasional footnotes. Names of Persons. Ink and pencil notes on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. Minor damp staining at top edge of first few pages. James P. C. Southall obtained an A.B. in 1891 and an M.A. in 1893 at the University of Virginia. He was an instructor in physics at the University of Virginia between 1891 and 1893. In 1914 he joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he served until his retirement in 1940. He is probably best known as editor of the American edition of Helmholtz's Physiological Optics (1924-25). He wrote many papers, a number of which appeared in JOSA, on optical illusions and geometrical optics. During the First World War, he was a consultant to the War Department on range finders, periscopes, gunsights and similar optical equipment. Fifteen of his articles were published in JOSA. Abbott was born in Hagerstown, MD, and grew up in Georgetown, DC. His father was William Richardson Abbott (d. 1852), the founder of the Georgetown Classical and Mathematical Academy. Abbott the younger attended the University of Virginia in sessions 32-33 (1855-1857). He was a teacher by profession and taught in Alexandria and Charlottesville, VA, and in Opelousas, LA, until the start of the Civil War. From 1861 until 1863, Abbott served as a second lieutenant in the First Regiment of Engineers Troops, the Army of Virginia. He was with Lee at the surrender in Appomattox, VA. In 1870, Abbott became assistant headmaster of the private Bellevue High School in Bedford County, VA, and in 1873, became headmaster, a post in which he served until the school was closed in 1909. Bellevue was then converted to the Abbotts' private home, where he lived until the end of his life.