captain head (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprinted. xv, [3], various paginations. Fold-out. Index. Pressure flow feed system diagram laid in. Some pencil underlining noted. Cover has some wear and soiling. Stamp of former owner inside front cover. along with pencil notes on members of a marine engineering class. Illustrations and diagrams (some with color). The primary function of any marine engineering plant is to convert the chemical energy of a fuel into useful work and to employ that work in the propulsion of a ship. Other functions include the production of power for steering, lighting, ventilating, heating, cooking, refrigeration, operation of various types of electrical equipment including radio and other electronic devices, and, in naval vessels, the power for loading, aiming, and firing the ship's guns.This work is a descriptive treatment of the stem engines and machinery to be found aboard ships of the Navy. The subject matter has been treated to emphasize the construction details and the operating principles.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Third Edition (stated on title page) (first published in 1826). Hardback copy in half bound burgundy leather, black cloth boards, 5 raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small bookshop sticker to top corner of front pastedown, some foxing to title page, rubbing to leather edges. (23/2).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A scarce copy of this illustrated periodical published in British India. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with pictorial paper wraps. Edited by Captain H. Nugent Head and Captain J. Scott Cockburn, both of the 4th Q O Hussars.This periodical gives a comprehensive account of the field sports of pigsticking and boar hunting in India. With chapters on hunting in Agra, Ambala, Baroda, Calcutta, Delhi, Muttra, Nagpur, Roorkee and many other locations. Other articles include the Pipal Pani Tiger, folk songs and legends of the Kanjars, the Kadir Cup, extracts from Indian Sporting Review, and many more. Charmingly illustrated with vignettes throughout, and a frontispiece in colour. Advertisements to the front and rear of the work. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper wraps. Externally, very good, with light soiling to the wraps and light edge wear. Bumping causing small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Light tidemarks to the endpapers and the first few pages of advertisements. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd mark. Very Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). The third edition of Francis Bond Head's entertaining account of his travels in South America and the Andes. The third edition of this work.Francis Bond Head offers an account of his travels in South America, through Argentina and the Andes, in the early 19th century, when he was a young man.He attempted to set up a mining company in Argentina, and rode between Buenos Aires and the Andes twice, from which he was given the nickname "Galloping Head".Rebacked, in a half calf binding. Retaining the original endpapers, which bear former owner's inscriptions. Rebacked, in a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Retaining the original endpapers. Significant rubbing to paper covered boards. Inscriptions to pastedowns and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Loss to title page head, not affecting text. Pages age toned due to paper type, with spotting and significant handling marks. Good. book.

First edition. Original limp buff illustrated bds. 119pp. Coloured frontis. with tissue guard. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Bds. sl. bent, head and tail of spine frayed. VG+.

12mo, pp. xii, [1], 14-264; front free endpaper excised, otherwise complete with the half title; contemporary calf-backed boards; small cracks starting at the joints, but in all, very good. The preface discusses the rise and fall of English mining companies in the region. The author was himself a mining company representative, and he accounts for the commercial failure as ignorance of the English about the country in which they were working. Head was also appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1835, and was later knighted. American Imprints 29183.

Rough Notes taken during Some Rapid Journeys across The Pampas and among the Andes.Boston, Wells and Lilly, 1827, 18 x 11 cm., holandesa piel chagrín, XII + 264 págs. (Sellos de anterior poseedor. Primera edición americana de esta obra no recogida por Palau). Historia de España.