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Vol II only of the 9th edition of John Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain: Scotland and Ireland. Small 16mo (15cm), rebacked in light brown calf with original mottled boards. Spine has gilt tooling with original spine label preserved, volume number label is missing, boards show minor edgewear at corners.
Title page + [599 - 1305] pp + 6 supplement pp. In excellent internal condition, text very clean and bright, with new blank endpapers.
John Debrett was a prolific English writer and compiler of reference works. His Peerage of the United Kingdom is a culturually important, painstaking record of the complex story of British titles, having proved indispensable to understanding the interrelationships, intermarriages and inheritances that have shaped the British aristocracy. It reads rather like a nobility studbook!

Small 8vo (20cm), viii + 448pp, original brown cloth boards are stained, slightly frayed and worn around edges with corners bumped, rebacked in brown buckram with gilt lettering to title and author's name with year of print. Internally fair, pages tanned with occasional foxing and marginalia, textblock edges tanned with some warping to page edges. This book has seen better days but is complete, with all text legible and the binding firmly in one piece.
John Ware (1795 - 1864) was an American physican who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He was one of the founding members of the Boston Society for Medical improvement and of the Boston Society for Natural History. The present work is an expansion and reworking of William Smellie's (1740 - 1795) Philosophy of Natural History, which is essentially a general biololgy textbook for students based on knowledge at the time. The definition of natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries was much wider than in the present day.… Read More