Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age
London: John Murray, 1873. Good. Item #47320
London: John Murray, 1873. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's purple decorative cloth, upper cover stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine; vi,377,[1],16pp.; photographic frontispiece. Cloth quite rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends, deep creasing to spine (heavily toned), textblock recased, preliminaries fingersoiled. A Good copy only of a scarce work. Contemporary armorial ex libris of a C.R.R. Malone and 20th century ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.
A serviceable copy of the scarce posthumous memoirs of Scottish polymath and astronomer Mary Somerville (1780-1872) with excerpts from her correspondence edited by her daughter Martha.
Price: $125.00