a d lacaille (12 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 13pp + 2 plates. 9.5 x 6 inch. Interior good and clean. Signed by Author(s).

Paper Covers. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Offprint. 38 page offprint from Records of Bucks, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, charts and maps. Detailed report featuring flint tools.

Zustand: Used - Good. Good paperback. First Edition. Reprint from Archaeologia, vol.XCII, pp.95-119 + plates. Some foxing; thin blue card cover discoloured. Appendix on a human skull, by Prof. Caves Used - Good. Good paperback.

Zustand: Very Good. xxii, 345, map frontis, 9 b/w plates, 140 text figs, 6 tables (2 folded). . HB. Cloth, gt, light fading. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg. Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, No. 6.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. LACAILLE, A. D. The Stone Age in Scotland Oxford, Uni. Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1954. 4to. xxii, 345 p., with 9 plates, 140 figures, 6 tables, and map of Scotland at the frontispiece. Hardback, blue buckram gilt, title to spine and decoration stamped on front cover. Original printed paper dust jacket showing drawings of Scots firs in Glenfalloch. Just a few light marks to jacket and front cover. A fine copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardbacks, 3 volume set. 32cm x 26.5cm. xiv, 399pp; viii, 116 plates + plan in pocket at rear; xiii, 182pp + 87 plates + 2 folding plans in pocket at rear. Bindings a little marked. Contents clean. A very pleasing set. A very heavy set (5.6kg), additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK. (p13).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce 3 volume set of first editions, richly illustrated with archaeological finds, in original dust wrappers. A very scarce 3 volume set of first editions on the archaeological finds at Jebel Moya, Abu Geili, Saqada and Dar el Mek.All in original, clipped dust wrappers.Volume 1 features frequent vignette illustrations throughout.Volume 2 features a colour frontispiece, and 116 total plates: 55 double-sided monochrome plates, a folding plate, 1monochrome plate,4 colour plates, and 1 large folding plan, with colour detail, stored in a pocket to rear of book.Collated, complete.Volume 3 features 46 double-sided plates, and a further monochrome plate. Collated, complete. Bound in original tan cloth. In original clipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart. The odd mark to boards. Minimal shelf wear. Damp stains to vol3 spine. Vol3 has a backwards lean. Slight damp stains to vol3 rear board. Dust wrappers externally smart. Tape mending to reverse of vol3 dust wrapper. Occasional chipping and small closed tears to dust wrappers. Large closed tear to vol2 dust wrapper rear cover. Small tide marks to vol1 rear dust wrapper. Moderate creasing to vol2 front fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Loss to vol3plate lxxxiii. Graze to vol3 plate lxxxv. Very Good Indeed. book.

London etc., Oxford University Press, 1954, large in-8°, XXII+345 pp, 9 bw plates h.t., 140 bw ills, ed. Gilt cloth, dustwrapper. Nice copy.

London, Oxford University Press, 1949. 2 volumes large in-4°, xlv,399pp, with 123 textfigures. (=text-volume) ; 116 plates (=plates-volume), bound in publisher's cloth with red lettering on cover, with printed dustwrapper. The wrappers are damaged and soiled, with some loss of paper. The bindings and the inside are very clean ( no ex-library copy). [archaeology;north africa;sudan]. A third volume was published (not present here).

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1744). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences", L'Annee 1744, pp. 191-238 and 2 folded engraved plates. First edition. "The Abbé La Caille was an immensssely industrious observational astronomer whose career was climaxed by a scintific expedition to Cape of Good Hope" his studies here made him "the father of of southern astronomy", and his names for fourteen southern constellations remain as his most enduring monumnt." His results in measuring the parallax of the moon, especially from Cape of Good Hope - provided an exact computation of the earth-moon distance - indicating a distance to the moon of about 60 times the earth's radius.

Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1757. 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small paperlabels pasted on spine. Stamps on front free endpapers.VIII,192 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Otherwise fine. Second edition. - Partington I, 1337.

Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1756. 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small paperlabels pasted on spine. IV,204 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Second edition. - Partington I, 1337.