Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnean Society.
Published by John Murray, 1876., London:, 1876
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Neuchatel, Neuchatel, SwitzerlandJeff Weber Rare Books
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8vo. xix, [1],438 pp. Illustrated by George Reid; browning, offsetting. Rebound ca. 1950 in full red gilt-stamped cloth. PROVENANCE: Rubber-stamp of M.H. Nisbet; inscribed to Mat. Nisbet by John Moosy[!?]; signature of Henry C. King, Feb. 23, 1936, Slough. Very good. Thomas Edward (1814—1886) was a Scottish naturalist born in Gosport. He was trained as a shoemaker and eventually settled in Banff, where he devoted his leisure time to the study of animal nature, and collected numerous specimens of animals, which he stuffed and exhibited, but with monetary loss. Samuel Smiles, his biographer, describes him as "one of those men who lived for science, not by science." / Samuel Smiles wrote several biographical works (many are engineers or men of science), all given with lots of details. He wrote of George & Robert Stephenson, James Brindley, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Capt. John Perry, John Smeaton, John Rennie (1761—1821), John Metcalf, Thomas Telford, Boulton and Watt, Andrew Yarranton, Benjamin Huntsman, Dud Dudley, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Clement, George Moore, Robert Dick, Phineas Pett, Francis Pettit Smith, John Harrison, John Lombe, William Murdoch, Frederick Koenig, The Walter family of The Times, William Clowes, Charles Bianconi, James Nasmyth, Josiah Wedgwood, and Thomas Edwards. / "Selections from the fauna of Banffshire, by Thomas Edward": p. [337]-390 (mammals, birds, fishes, crustacea). / PROVENANCE: Henry C. King (1915-2005), signed in Slough, U.K. When he came to Slough, Henry C. King gained access to the Herschel library. Earlier, and apparently, one Matthew H. Nisbet had the titles of L.D.S. and F.P.S., earning a license in dental surgery, and a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society. This copy could be inscribed to him. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnean Society.
- Author
- [EDWARD, Thomas (1814-1886)] SMILES, Samuel (1812-1904).
- Publisher
- John Murray, 1876., London:
- Publication year
- 1876
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
Jeff Weber Rare Books
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