The Epheble Oath and Other Essays
by MCADIE Alexander [George]
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- Hardcover
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Charlottesville , Virginia, United States
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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 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 one of the founders of the Seismological Society of America. After leaving the Weather Bureau in 1913, he became Professor of Meteorology at Harvard and Director of the Blue Hill Observatory.He married an Albemarle County woman, (Mary Randolph Brown of Edgehill, a descendent of Thomas Jefferson), and is buried in Charlottesville
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- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2873
- Title
- The Epheble Oath and Other Essays
- Author
- MCADIE Alexander [George]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912.
- Pages
- frontispiece and 6 mounted machine-printed photogravures ; and text with chapter ornaments and 64, uncut and unopened
- Keywords
- VIRGINIANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE;
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Charlottesville , Virginia
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