Fragmentary Remains Literary And Scientific Of Sir Humphry Davy Bart Late President Of The Royal

by Humphry Davy John Davy Ed

$350 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: John Churchill, 1858. 8vo. viii, 330, 1 pp. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; scattered annotations and underlining in pencil. From the library of Arnold Thackray with his bookplate on the paste-down and the ownership signature of J. Paul de Castro on the half title. A newspaper article that includes excerpts of letters from Davy has been tipped onto the verso of the colophon leaf. Item #14760

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