1st Edition, 8vo (21cm) viii, 172pp. 5 plates. Stringbound pamphlet (12pp): Analysis of Qaero, tipped in to front pastedown. Bookplate of Ernest Taylor to endpaper and "With the Author's Compliments" slip tipped in after title page. Gift inscription to endpaper dated 1905. Covers have some very minor marks and soiling. A little foxing to endpapers. Very clean throughout. Binding sound. A good copy of this privately printed collection of essays. James Hurd Keeling (1832 - 1909) was born in Malta, the son of the Rev John Keeling, a well-known Wesleyan minister. On the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 he went out as Surgeon to the second regiment of the Turkish contingent. In 1860 he became Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at the Sheffield Medical School, beginning a teaching career that would last nearly forty years. Seller Inventory # 1186

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Title: QUAERO [SOME QUESTIONS IN MATTER, ENERGY ...

Publisher: London [For Private Circulation] 1898

Publication Date: 1898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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