1901 Manuscript Notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston, geologist and author, as a Harvard student
by Julius W. Eggleston
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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Massachusetts. 1901 Two octavo notebooks, one in paper wraps, the other in a roan-backed and pebbled cloth binding. Collectively,150 manuscript pages with numerous illustrations. Overall condition is very good.
Undergraduate and graduate notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston (1875-1945) who graduated from Harvard and embarked on a career as a geologist. The notebooks include class, laboratory and field notes. They are hand-illustrated throughout by Eggleston. At some point in his life, Eggleston removed to Shrewsbury, Vermont and then later to Riverside, California where he lived until his death.
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- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) (US)
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- 3731782
- Title
- 1901 Manuscript Notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston, geologist and author, as a Harvard student
- Author
- Julius W. Eggleston
- Book Condition
- Used
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
About Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...