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San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. . 12mo, cream paper-covered boards, front gilt; red leather spine label; free endpapers badly browned; in a three sided paper-covered slip-case One of 500 copies, out-of-series. In the Philopolis Series . The author's own copy with both his and his wife's names on the front free endpaper.The very attractive text borders are by… Read more about this item

Lugd. Batav.: Apud Fraciscum Moyardum & Adrianum Wijngaerde, 1645. . 24mo, full stiff contemporary vellum, wallet edges, lacking ties; title page has name cut out, resulting in a lacuna 2 x 1/8 inches; lacks front free endpaper First published in London in 1623 as "Advancement and Proficiency of Learning". First continental edition published in Paris in 1624 with this… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Company, 1922. . 12mo, gray cloth, front and spine printed in navy-blue; dust jacket with insect damage to fore-edges and foot of spine McAdie joined the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1891 as Meteorological Physicist and Assistant to its first Director in Washington. He was then transferred to San Francisco where, after the earthquake, he became… Read more about this item

Saint Louis, 415 N. Broadway: The Company, . . 8vo, self wrappers, front cover included in pagination stapled at the centerfold; has been folded; separation of the first and last leaf at head of spine (1.5 inches). Printed in blue on blue paper Company not represented in Romaine or McKinstry."Albert Sidney Aloe (1842Ð1893) was a Jewish immigrant from Scotland… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912. . 12mo, cream paper-covered boards, front gilt; red leather spine label; free endpapers badly browned; in a three sided paper-covered slip-case One of 500 copies, out-of-series. In the Philopolis Series . The very attractive text ornaments are by Lucia E. Mathews and the frontispiece by her husband, Arthur F. Mathews. McAdie joined the… Read more about this item

London: Charles Buckton and Sold by F. Wingrave, 1792. . 4to in twos, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with part of original spine laid down; new endpapers; ex-library with only very discrete rubberstamps on the Dedication page; some early repairs to marginal tears 

London: G, G. J. & J. Robinson, {also published in Edinburgh (John Bell) & Glasgow (J. W. Shaw), 1786. . 8vo, disbound; signatures A and B are separated from the remainder of the text block. Four holdings in OCLC.McCalman was a surgeon in Greenock, Scotland and was the author of one other work: "A natural, commercial and medicinal… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926. . 8vo, blue paper-covered boards, navy-blue spine; t.e.g.; dust jacket present, but with insect damage and several holes Written for the lay-person, these essays were originally delivered in the Lowell Institute Course in December 1924McAdie joined the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1891 as Meteorological Physicist and Assistant to its first Director in Washington.… Read more about this item