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Adamant Media Corporation, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: Roberts Brothers. Good +/No Dust Jacket. 1874. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Used 8vo 377pp Written by subjects daughter. Mary Somerville wrote several books on scientific studies and helped further the opinion of women in public life. Good+ in green cloth (white splatters to front board, fade spots to boards due to moisture, light rubbing to edges, mold stains to rear inner hinge) .

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-11-03. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-11-03. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2010-05-27. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Boston, Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers, 1874. With Selections from her Correspondence. First US Edition. 377 pp. Previous owner's inscription on front fly-leaf. Brown endpapers, with torn edges on ffep. Brown cloth with black titles. Three corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, edges and spine darkened. VG. First Edition.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London,, 1873. Early Reprint. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. University of Edinburgh student library label on the front pastedown with signs of label removal at spine. Some wear and splitting at inner hinges with some fading at spine and edges, otherwise sound, very good minus with clean text. . 8vo. pp vi, 377, [32]. Original publisher's mauve cloth, lettered gilt at the spine and illustrated in black on the front cover. ""Third thousand"" printed on the title page.

Hardback. New.

8vo, pp. vi, 377, [1] blank; woodburytype frontispiece portrait; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, decorated spine gilt, with a black label lettered in gilt, marbled edges.
Perhaps one of the most distinguished English scientist's of her day, Mary Somerville was highly respected across Europe. In addition to her 'grasp of scientific truth in all branches of knowledge', she was a renowned educationalist and in her later years gave 'powerful but always temperate support to the cause of the education and emancipation of women. Hers was the first signature on John Stuart Mill's great petition to Parliament for women's suffrage, solicited by Mill himself' (DSB). One of her main strengths lay in her ability to comprehend and synthesize the work of her contemporaries and render it approachable for both the general reader and more advanced students. In the words of Sir David Brewster she was 'certainly the most extraordinary woman in Europe - a mathematician of the very first rank with all the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1873. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 377, 16 publisher's catalog pp. Rebound in half blue morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt, with six raised bands. Frontispiece photograph of a portrait bust of Mary Somerville. Light foxing to a few preliminary pages of text else fine. Inscribed (on a 4.5" square leaf from the original flyleaf, when the book was rebound it was tipped onto the original second front blank flyleaf) by publisher John Murray to Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the year of publication: "Baroness Burdett-Coutts, with John Murray's kind comp's Dec. 6/ '73". Also laid into the book is a one page Autograph Lletter Signed, from Murray to Baroness Burdett-Coutts on Murray's embossed letterhead to "Dear Baroness Coutts." The cordial letter begins: "I beg leave to ask your acceptance of a copy of Mary Somerville's Memoirs, a small volume w'ch I think will interest you. There are certain points in Mrs. S's character w'ch have a… Read More