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1855008687London: Henry G. Bohn 1855. RARE the last complete set seen at auction 1956. Six volumes published 1855-1857. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs gilt with black morocco labels end papers and edges marbled. Very Good remnants of bookplate removal front paste downs hinges Vol. I starting from top edge yet still holding wear showing at hinges other volumes spines calf darkened light rubbing at edges of boards interiors clean and lovely. Additional postage required for international and priority mail shipping. Please inquire. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books
189456228N.p. Cambridge Mass. 1894. 4to approx. 200 pages several diagrams and drawings in loose sheets often with paste-overs and cancels and bound in contemporary marbled boards tied with string and nearly broken; spine perished; good or better and legible. For a good account of Holmes see DAB. Born in 1815 in Peterborough N.H. and a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Harvard and Harvard Law he removed to St. Louis where he was first the city then the county attorney. In 1868 he returned to Cambridge where he became a professor of law at Harvard. He "did no legal writing but was widely interested in other subjects. His Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself 1888 exhibits extensive philosophic and scientific reading but has no perceptible influence and now seems unreadable . His scholarship and fairness have been praised by his opponents. In his old age he compiled a Genealogy of the Holmes Family of Londonderry N.H. containing garrulous sketches of his relatives and a long autobiography" DAB. As well as this extensive treatise on gravitation and electricity begun when he was nearly 80. <br/><br/> hardcover books
