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ISBN10: 1596910291, ISBN13: 9781596910294, [publisher: Bloomsbury USA] Hardcover First Edition The story of James Smithson and his mysterious bequest to found in Washington, DC, "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men". This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. DJ shows only minor shelf wear with no rubbing or soiling and is not price clipped. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square with no fading on boards. Corners not bumped. An excellent reading copy. [Potomac, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
Bloomsbury USA 2007 Hardcover Very Good jacket First Edition. First Printing. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Bloomsbury USA 2007 1st Printing. Hardcover Good in Very Good jacket Ex-Library Ex-library copy with no library pocket and few librry marks in book. us hist.
ISBN10: 1596910291, ISBN13: 9781596910294, [publisher: Bloomsbury, USA] Hardcover First Edition First Edition/First Printing. Fine condition. Brodart protected. Ships in a box. [Grottoes, VA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
ISBN10: 1596910291, ISBN13: 9781596910294, [publisher: bloomsbury books, N Y] Hardcover First Edition not ex-library copy. hardcover edition with dustjacket.text unmarked.NOT EX-LIB.binding is solid. stated first edition, first printing with complete number line starting with number 1. [Krotz Springs, LA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
New York: Bloomsbury, Date: 2007. First U. S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xi, 432, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Genealogy Chart. Notes. Index. James Smithson, MA, FRS (c. 1765 - 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson was the illegitimate child of the 1st Duke of Northumberland, and was born secretly in Paris, on an unknown date, possibly in the Pentemont Abbey, as Jacques-Louis Macie (later altered to James Louis). Eventually, he was naturalized in England and attended university, studying chemistry and mineralogy at Pembroke College, Oxford. At the age of twenty-two, he changed his surname from Macie to Smithson, his father's pre-marriage surname. Smithson traveled extensively throughout Europe publishing papers about his findings. Considered a talented amateur in his field, Smithson maintained an inheritance he acquired from his mother and other relatives. Smithson never married and had no children; therefore, when he wrote his will, he left his estate to his nephew, or his nephew's family if his nephew died before Smithson. If his nephew was to die without heirs, however, Smithson's will stipulated that his estate be used "to found in Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." In 1835, ...
New York Bloomsbury 2007 First U. S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated] Hardcover Very good in very good jacket xi, 432, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Genealogy Chart. Notes. Index. James Smithson, MA, FRS (c. 1765-27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson was the illegitimate child of the 1st Duke of Northumberland, and was born secretly in Paris, on an unknown date, possibly in the Pentemont Abbey, as Jacques-Louis Macie (later altered to James Louis). Eventually, he was naturalized in England and attended university, studying chemistry and mineralogy at Pembroke College, Oxford. At the age of twenty-two, he changed his surname from Macie to Smithson, his father's pre-marriage surname. Smithson traveled extensively throughout Europe publishing papers about his findings. Considered a talented amateur in his field, Smithson maintained an inheritance he acquired from his mother and other relatives. Smithson never married and had no children; therefore, when he wrote his will, he left his estate to his nephew, or his nephew's family if his nephew died before Smithson. If his nephew was to die without heirs, however, Smithson's will stipulated that his estate be used "to found in Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." In 1835, his nephew died and so could ...
ISBN10: 1596910291, ISBN13: 9781596910294, [publisher: Bloomsbury, New York] Hardcover First Edition xi, 432, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Genealogy Chart. Notes. Index. James Smithson, MA, FRS (c. 1765 - 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson was the illegitimate child of the 1st Duke of Northumberland, and was born secretly in Paris, on an unknown date, possibly in the Pentemont Abbey, as Jacques-Louis Macie (later altered to James Louis). Eventually, he was naturalized in England and attended university, studying chemistry and mineralogy at Pembroke College, Oxford. At the age of twenty-two, he changed his surname from Macie to Smithson, his father's pre-marriage surname. Smithson traveled extensively throughout Europe publishing papers about his findings. Considered a talented amateur in his field, Smithson maintained an inheritance he acquired from his mother and other relatives. Smithson never married and had no children; therefore, when he wrote his will, he left his estate to his nephew, or his nephew's family if his nephew died before Smithson. If his nephew was to die without heirs, however, Smithson's will stipulated that his estate be used "to found in Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." In 1835, his nephew died ...
NYNY Bloomsbury 2007 Hardcover Edition Hardcover Illustrated Very Good in Very Good jacket Clean tight strong fresh jacket boards text-No remainder or other markings. Size: 8vo.
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