Biographies from Acanthophyllum Books

University of Salzburg, 1997. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.

Stretton on Dunsmore History Society, 2006. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.

Bloomsbury, 2007. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Biography of the natural son of the Duke of Northumberland whose mother imbued in him a love of science. His hitherto mysterious early life is here revealed and dissected in considerable detail. His legacy, the Smithsonian Museum, was paradoxically the reason for the mystery, since a fire destroyed his… Read more about this item

British Society for the History of Science, 1982. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Institute of Minine and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle, 1908. Offprint of General Meeting. Paper covers. Fsair/No Jacket. Covers detached, chipped at edges. Library ink stamp.

Columbia University Press, 2000. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. inscribed by the author.

Royal School of Mines, 1947. 4th edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1952. Reprint of 1951 edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./Good. Jacket price-clipped, frayed at tip of spine

Wiltshire Arachaeol. & Nat. Hist. Magazine, 1993. Vol. 86 (offprint). Stapled.. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.

Frome Society for local study, 1997. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Lower corner wear to boards.

Royal School of Mines Association, 1961. 5th edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Constable & Co., London, 1970. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Butterworths, London, 1984-1986. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket (Supplement in paper covers). V.g./V.g.. Little used. Spines of jackets lightly sunned.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Readers Union, 1956. Book Club edition. Hard covers. Good/No Jacket. Spine sunned.

Yale University Press, 1978-1984, 1998. 1st edition thus. Hard covers, dust jackets. Fine/Fine. Scarcely used. Spines of jackets of vols. 1-12 sunned.The sad demise of the diarist in 1821 while visiting his brother (falling downstairs from Didsbury Church's gallery) is recorded on the last page (p. 5761) by his neice, Marianne Farington).

Adam & Charles Black, 1969. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Jacket with outer wrapper.

Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1950. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Staples rusted.

University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, London, 1961. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Slight edge wear to jacket.

Pergamon Press, 1969. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.