Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Overall, a clean and tight copy. Additionally, Dust Jacket protected with a new clear archival cover. Bloomsbury USA, 2007. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Book wrapped in bubble wrap. Media mail delivered in a box, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. . ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Bloomsbury USA, 2007. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. . ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

London: Bloomsbury, Date: 2007. First American Edition edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 24.5 cm. ... Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. lightly slanted, v. ltly compressed sp. V. ltly tanned p. edges. Clean, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, sme lt marks. Sme v. lt edgwr, bending at top and bottom. In new mylar Brodart jacket. Boards . ISBN: 1596910291. Catalogs: Science. 2007. Bloomsbury ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

New York: Bloomsbury. Hardcover. Date: 2007. 1st Edition. 8vo 432pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. Chronicles the life of James Smithson as a scientist, suspected spy, gambler, radical revolutionary, and philanthropist, telling the story of his remarkable bequest and the controversy it spawned . 2007. Bloomsbury ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Bloomsbury USA, 2007. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. . ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

New York: Bloomsbury. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. Date: 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1596910291 . A beautiful first printing of this first edition copy in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author Heather Ewing directly on the title page; In the mid 1830s, Englishman James Smithson had left all his fortune to found in Washington, '"an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men". Heather Ewing masterfully portraits Smithson and the birth of one of the largest museums and research complexes in the world at the beginning of the 21st century ; 8vo; Signed by Author . 2007. Bloomsbury ISBN 1596910291 US

New York: Bloomsbury, Date: 2007. (2007), 432pp, illus., gift note to tp in pencil, light rubbing to dj.. First American. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 2007. Bloomsbury ISBN 1596910291 9781596910294 [US]

London and New York: Bloomsbury, Date: 2007. 432 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The first ever biography of James Smithson, the Englishman who bequeathed his fortune to establish Washington's Smithsonian Institute -- the largest museum and research complex in the world -- without ever having set foot in the United States. In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift -- a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.' The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. ...