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John Murray, London, 1852. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. 12 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: 22 x 15 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Manchester Interest. Inventory No: 512507..
Loch Etive and The Sons Of Uisnach by Angus Smith Dr - 1879
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Loch Etive and The Sons Of Uisnach
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Original Hardcover Edition London: Macmillan, 1879. Ex-Library. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original First Edition 1879 Hardcover Green Cloth Bright Gilt Celtic designs on the cover and gilt lettering on spine. Original plates of the ancient Neolithic Cairns and Celtic Hill forts that follows the Sorrowful Tale of Storytelling, Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach from Ireland to Dalriada Scotland. The Old Gods and Goddess Tuatha De Dannan and the Fairy sites and their stories . Full page illus too. Frontis with tissue This handsome First Edition does have library flaws. Blackened out number patch on the lower front of the spine. Inside rear cover remains of library stickers and pocket. Front Book plate of Gavin Maxwell. Good+ shape. Tight Clean handsome bright Celtic designs and lettering. No underlines or writing! Some foxing Tight binding and very handsome despite library flaws. Original 1879 Irish and Scottish Fairy Faith folklore and 19th century travel book. Since 1977 Three Geese In Flight selling Celtic Myth and packing with care.
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- Keywords scottish fairies irish myth scottish fairies deirdre dalriada celtic mythology irish folklore cairns megalithic journey
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The Air & Water of Towns : action of Porous Strata, Water & Organic Matter. An uncommon original article from the British Association for the Advancement of Science Report, 1851
by Dr. Robert Angus Smith, Manchester
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The Production and Prevention of Malaria. An original article from the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 1862
by Dr. R. Angus Smith
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Manchester Philosophical Society, London, 1862. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. 12 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Wikipedia : The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, popularly known as the Lit. & Phil., is one of the oldest learned societies in the United Kingdom and second oldest provincial learned society (after the Spalding Gentlemen's Society). Established in February 1781, as the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Prominent members have included Robert Owen, John Dalton, James Prescott Joule, Sir William Fairbairn, Tom Kilburn, Peter Mark Roget, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Alan Turing, Sir Joseph Whitworth and Dorothy Hodgkin. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Manchester Philosophical Society; Inventory No: 615680..
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The Life and Works of Thomas Graham DCL, FRS. Illustrated by 64 Unpublished Letters. Prepared by ... Dr R. Angus Smith. Edited by J.J. Coleman ..
by [GRAHAM, Thomas]. SMITH, Dr R. Angus
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Glasgow: John Smith & Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Glasgow, John Smith & Sons, 1884. Octavo, 114 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Blind-decorated cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and first and last few leaves foxed; an excellent copy. The University Philosophical Society, Dublin, Members' Library bookplate is mounted on the front flyleaf (cockling it a little); an inscription by the librarian on the pastedown notes that the book was presented to the Society by the author in February 1887. Thomas Graham (1805-1869) is known as the founder of colloidal chemistry and for his fundamental research on the nature of phosphoric acid and phosphates, diffusion of gases, liquids, and solutions, adsorption of gases by metals, dialysis, osmosis, mass transfer through membranes, and the constitution of matter (Wisniak, 2013; accessed on ScienceDirect).
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The Life and Works of Thomas Graham, D.C.L., F.R.S. Illustrated by 64 Unpublished Letters
by [Thomas Graham] Prepared by Dr. R. Angus Smith
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Glasgow: John Smith and Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 114pp. Ex-library, with obvious removal of labels to the front endpapers, a few internal stamps, but no outer markings. Some rubbing to the spine. Overall very good. Scarce volume celebrating the work of Thomas Graham, a Scottish chemist responsible for major breakthroughs in dialysis and gas diffusion.
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The Life and Works of Thomas Graham, D.C.L., F.R.S. Illustrated by 64 Unpublished Letters.
by Dr. R. Angus Smith, LL.D., F.R.S.; J. J. Coleman, F.I.C., F.C.S. [ed.]
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Glasgow: John Smith & Sons, 1884. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original decorative stamped brown cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to front and spine. Yellow endpapers. Some rubbing along edges of covers; rear board lightly scuffed. Top edge dust-toned. Old gift inscription top of half-title page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Portrait frontispiece (from photograph) with tissue-guard. vi,[7-]114pp. .
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