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New York: D. Appleton & Co., New York: 1873, 1873 pp. (x), 473 + Woodcut frontis and other woodcut plates. 12 mo. 20.5 cm. Bound in half calf over marbled boards. Chipped at head and tail. Rubbed at extremities. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Text bright and crisp. Tyndall was seized by the mountains, and he became one of the most intrepid and resolute of explorers (among other feats of climbing, he was the first to ascend the Weissborn [1861]). He and his wife Louisa (daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton) maintained a cottage on Bel Alp above the Rhone valley. Tyndall's observations on glacier motion brought him into acute conflict with ot her scientists, though it was he who identified the essential principles and causes of glacier motion. John Tyndall was born in Ireland in poor circumstances. He was a remarkable self-made man of scie nce. "With Darwin and Huxley his name is inseparably connected with the battle which began in the middle of the 19th century for making the new… Read More

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1871. [Alpine Climbing and Mountaineering] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 473 [9]. With seven engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black panelled decoration to boards. Lightly toned throughout, with a tobacco scent. One central gathering slightly proud. Light wear and bumping to cloth, with a large repair to head of spine. Very good. As well as a pioneering physicist, Tyndall was also a serious mountaineer who took part in some of the earliest assents of Weisshorn and the Matterhorn in the 1860's. This book chronicling his Alpine exploits was intended to complement his earlier collection 'Fragments of Science for Unscientific People' (1871).

New York: 549 & 551 Broadway: D Appleton & Company, 1871. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG, 1st US ed, 7 pls, 1871. In the orioginal red printed cloth, corners rubbed. Spine, edges rubbed, gilt titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), [2], [1], 2-473 pp, [1], [6] adverts, 7 pls (B&W), ink owners details to verso frontis (CP Patterson 1873), wear to lower cover, small tear at spine head, signs of removed bookplate to fpd. (Folio, 125*194 mm). (Allibone 1457. Neate 839). Tyndall, physicist & mountaineer, who in 1854, after attending the British Association meeting in Liverpool, visited the skate quarries of Penrhyn in north Wales. His familiarity with the effects of pressure upon the structure of crystals led him to give special attention to the problem of slate cleavage. By careful observation and experiments with white wax & many other substances which develop cleavages in planes… Read More