1824 1891 winchell alexander (7 Ergebnisse)

2nd Edition (?). Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Printed titles and a gilt-tooled C.L.S.C. vignette to front panel. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 329 pages; Description: 329 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Geology -- Fossils -- History. Notes: Includes index. First published in 1886. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked brown cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Printed titles and a gilt-tooled C.L.S.C. vignette to front panel. Previous owner's stamps to endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 329 pages; Description: 329 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Geology -- Fossils -- History. Notes: Includes index. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. F. 329 p. 12mo. 21 cm. Original decorative cloth. Crisp copy. An important title in the Chautauquan effort to make scientific (and other intellectual) theories and discoveries accessible to a wider popul ar audience. It is interesting to note that Winchell (a professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Michigan) is the same author that earlier wrote on racial inferiority and Pre-Adamite man. Here he seems to emphasize more acceptable scientific, geological and biological views. First edition. "Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sen se on the ground floor" -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1872). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W148 Language: eng.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Zustand: New.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Some dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges with wear and tear as with age; spine starting. Physical description; volume 2 (only): 680 pages. Subjects; Zoology. Animal behavior. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing ] ; 329 p. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 05-12338 ; LC: QE35; Dewey: 550 ; OCLC: 489611 ; Contents : The Gravel Pit -- Among the Glaciers -- The Hillside Spring and its Work -- The Floods of the Great Lakes -- The River Gorge -- A Walk Under the Sea -- By the Rocky Wall -- Liquid Sunlight -- Gaseous Sunlight -- Solidified Sunlight -- The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands -- Lone Burials in the Coal Lands -- Historical glimpses -- The Primeval Storm -- The World without a BackBone -- Courses of the Earths Masonry -- Among the Volcanoes -- Frozen Seas of Lava -- The Unstable Land -- The Framework of the Mountains -- Down in a Mine -- The King of Metals -- Mammalian Rule -- Anticipation and Retrospect in Life Plans -- The Reign of Ice -- The Earth Receives her King -- Retrospect ; "This work attempts to hold a position between textbooks and books of light reading. The formal textbook would not suit the class of readers addressed. The style of light reading would have been unworthy of the theme, and would not have supplied the substantial information here intended. The writer has often felt that graphic illustrations would have rendered portions of the text more intelligible, and therefore, more entertaining; but these would have enhanced the cost of the book beyond limits which for other reasons seemed desirable. The method of treatment is simple. The reader begins with the familiar objects at his very door. His observations are extended to the field, the lake, the torrent, the valley, and the mountain. They widen over the continent until all the striking phenomena of the surface have been surveyed. Occasionally, trains of reasoning suggested by the facts are followed out until the outlines of geological theories emerge. The course of observation and reasoning then penetrates beneath the surface. The various formations and their most striking fossils are described, first in descending order, to the oldest. We find here indications of heat which stimulate speculation and bring out the grounds of a nebular theory of worldorigin. From this starting point, the treatment now handles the subject in historical order, weaving into a narrative, the dry facts previously noted. Reaching the end of the history, the treatment pauses for retrospect and reflection; and here are brought to view some of the higher and more abstruse thoughts connected with the subject of the book. It is hoped the perusal of this work may impart some clear conceptions of that grand range of scientific truths with which it deals. It is hoped, also, that a relish may be stimulated which will seek its gratification in the scholarly study of works of higher range and more exacting method." ; decorative brown and black cloth with gold lettering and designs ; Signature of Lizzie Peek (1862-1923), graduate of the State Women's College in Valdosta Georgia and the daughter of Senator W L Peek (1837-1922) of Conyers, who made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of Georgia as a Farmer's Alliance candidate in 1892, when he was attacked by a mob ; FINE. Book.