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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (Signed "Mary F. Thomas" on Title Page)
by Herschel, Mrs. John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. xii, 355, (4) pages. Complete with a frontis and two other plates. Hardcover bound in original green cloth with cover designs in black and with titles in gilt. The binding is worn but sound. Some splitting to the cloth at the right corner of the headcap on the front hinge. The binding is a bit dusty and soiled from handling. Inner hinges secure, and the text block is sound. Endpapers foxed, and the title and frontis are quite foxed. The text is generally clean. SIGNED at the top of the title page, "Mary F. Thomas." This appears to be Mary F. Thomas (1818-1888) the American physician, abolitionist, and Women's Rights leader. She would doubtless have held interest in Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), the German astronomer who discovered several comets. She was also the sister of William Herschel, with whom she worked. A scarce book with a nice association.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045653
- Title
- Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (Signed "Mary F. Thomas" on Title Page)
- Author
- Herschel, Mrs. John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1876; Mrs. John Herschel; Carolina Herschel; William Herschel; Comets; Astronomer; Women's Interest; Mary F. Thomas; Physician; Woman Doctor; Women's Rights; 19th Century; Rare; Science; Astronomy; Space; Stars; Planets.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Astronomy;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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