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for the heirs of Charles Elliot; et al., Edinburgh, 1790
Full contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, gilt morocco labels on two and three, A very good to excellent set, 4to (257x 200mm), Pp.xiii,[3],547; xii,515., Volume : 2 volumes
for the heirs of Charles Elliot; et al.(vol.1) and for Bell & Bradfute, et al.(vol.2). 1790-99. The second volume was published posthumously by Smellie’s son Alexander.
William Smellie was an “Edinburgh printer, naturalist, and antiquary; printed and contributed to the first edition of ‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ 1771; secretary of Newtonian Club, 1778, and of Scottish Antiquaries’ Society, 1793, (original member and keeper of natural history museum); noticed in Bruns’s ‘Crochallan Fencibles’; published and account of Scottish Antiquarian Society (1782-4), “The Philosophy of Natural History’ (1790-9), postumous lives of Lord Kames, Hume, Adam Smith, and J. Gregory, M.D., and an edition of Buffon.†(Oxford consice dictionary of National Biography p. 1210)
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