Author: Francis Paget Hett
Title: The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)
Description: Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition memoir of this prominent Scotsman of the late seventeenth century, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish antiquary and physician. The first professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he served as Physician to the King and Geographer Royal. He also performed studies of whales, providing the first scientific description of the blue whale.Edited by Francis Paget Hett.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and a facsimile portion of letter between Drummond and Jonson from 1619.With the ownership inscription of Lawrence Dopson.This is an uncommon work, complete with a scarce dust wrapper.The first edition thus of this insightful memoir. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just slight bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is slightly chipped to the head of the spine, with a few marks and spots to the boards, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Robert Sibbald Memoirs Biography Francis Paget Hett Memoirs None
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Title: The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)
Description: Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition memoir of this prominent Scotsman of the late seventeenth century, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish antiquary and physician. The first professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he served as Physician to the King and Geographer Royal. He also performed studies of whales, providing the first scientific description of the blue whale.Edited by Francis Paget Hett.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and a facsimile portion of letter between Drummond and Jonson from 1619.With the ownership inscription of Lawrence Dopson.This is an uncommon work, complete with a scarce dust wrapper.The first edition thus of this insightful memoir. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just slight bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is slightly chipped to the head of the spine, with a few marks and spots to the boards, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Robert Sibbald Memoirs Biography Francis Paget Hett Memoirs None
Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 794R8
- Book number: 794R8
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