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MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, SCIENTIST OF THE SEA by Francis Leigh Williams | [Justice Lewis Powell] - 1963

by Francis Leigh Williams | [Justice Lewis Powell]

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MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, SCIENTIST OF THE SEA by Francis Leigh Williams | [Justice Lewis Powell] - 1963

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, SCIENTIST OF THE SEA

by Francis Leigh Williams | [Justice Lewis Powell]

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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963. First Edition. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition copy signed by the author at the behest of Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and his wife Jo (well before Powell was elevated to the Supreme Court). An interesting inscription: "Inscribed at the request of the donors, Lewis and Jo Powell for Ed and Nancy Rucker with the author's hope that you will find interesting this life of a Virginian whose monument is so near your home. Francis Leigh Williams". Lacking the publishers dustjacket. Very Good binding.
  • Bookseller Black Swan Books, Inc. US (US)
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • Place of Publication New Brunswick, NJ
  • Date Published 1963

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Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea

by WILLIAMS, Francis Leigh

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1963. (MAURY, MATTHEW FONTAINE). WILLIAMS, Francis Leigh. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963. 1st ed. 8vo. xx, [2], 720 pp., frontis., illus. Orig. cloth in priceclipped d/j. Very good. Nevins I, p. 239. "It is surprising that a figure as important in American history as Maury could wait as long as he had to wait for a satisfactory biography. When this one was eventually published it filled the need very handsomely"-In Tall Cotton 193. "A significant and comprehensive study, based on thorough research in original manuscript material, some not previously used"-Nevins II, p. 100.
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