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Book - Reference Book/History/Travel, Charles Richard Weld, Two months in the Highlands, Orcadia and Skye, 1860
... assistant secretary and librarian to the Royal Society, a post which he held for sixteen years. The senior secretary at the time was Peter Mark Roget, who encouraged Weld's historical work.
In 1861 he resigned his post at the Royal Society, and became a partner in the publishing business with Lovell Augustus Reeve (publisher). Weld was in charge of the philosophical department of the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and a district superintendent of the exhibition, he also represented Great Britain at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Weld died suddenly at his residence...assistant secretary and librarian to the Royal Society, a post which he held for sixteen years. The senior secretary at the time was Peter Mark Roget, who encouraged Weld's historical work.
In 1861 he resigned his post at the Royal Society, and became a partner in the publishing business with Lovell Augustus Reeve (publisher). Weld was in charge of the philosophical department of the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and a district superintendent of the exhibition, he also represented Great Britain at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Weld died suddenly at his residence ...
Charles Richard Weld (1813–1869) was an English writer and legal‑trained man who became best known for “A History of the Royal Society”, with Memoirs of the Presidents (1848), which is regarded as the first substantial institutional history of the Royal Society and remains a standard reference on early British science.
Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye is a 1860 travel book by him, published in London and listed as a first edition. Weld is also known as an historian of the Royal Society.
It should be noted that the subject work is sometimes catalogued with “Orcadia” and sometimes with “Orcadia and Skye” in slightly different punctuation, but the core bibliographic details are the same. With Weld as author and 1860 as the publication year, and Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts as publisher.
Weld's Highlands: Two Months in the Highlands Orcadia and Skye
Author: Charles Richard Weld
Publisher: Longman Green Longman Roberts
Date: 1860
Light and dark diagonally striped hardcover with a brown spine and reinforced corners. The spine has a label with an inscription.non-fictionCharles Richard Weld (1813–1869) was an English writer and legal‑trained man who became best known for “A History of the Royal Society”, with Memoirs of the Presidents (1848), which is regarded as the first substantial institutional history of the Royal Society and remains a standard reference on early British science.
Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye is a 1860 travel book by him, published in London and listed as a first edition. Weld is also known as an historian of the Royal Society.
It should be noted that the subject work is sometimes catalogued with “Orcadia” and sometimes with “Orcadia and Skye” in slightly different punctuation, but the core bibliographic details are the same. With Weld as author and 1860 as the publication year, and Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts as publisher.
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