john hawksworth (22 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. G: in Good condition with worn cover. Cover rubbed with wear and loss to spine. Hinges cracked. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). vii, 297pp.

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. G: in Good condition with worn cover. Cover rubbed with wear and loss to spine. Hinges cracked. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). vii, 291pp.

Full Calf. Zustand: Good. 297 + 298pp, Price is for either volume, Both still well bound complete with red labels on the ribbed spine. Wear & cracking at hinges as expected but all still holding together well. A nice couple of volumes. If ordering one please state which one.

Zustand: New.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity? | Eckehard G. Brockerhoff (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation | viii | Englisch | 2012 | Springer | EAN 9789400736856 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 1 Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity Forests form the natural vegetation over much of the Earth's land, and they are critical for the survival of innumerable organisms. The ongoing loss of natural forests, which in some regions may have taken many millennia to develop, is one of the main reasons for the decline of biodiversity. Preventing the further destruction of forests and protecting species and ecosystems within forests have become central issues for environmental agencies, forest managers, and gove- ments. In this di cult task science has an important role in informing policy and management as to how to go about this. So how do industrial and other pl- tation forests t into this Plantation forests, comprised of rows of planted trees that may be destined for pulp or sawmills after only a few years of growth, appear to have little to c- tribute to the conservation of biodiversity. Yet there is more to this than meets the eye (of the casual observer), and there are indeed numerous opportunities, and often untapped potential, for biodiversity conservation in plantation forestry. With plantation forests expanding at a rate of approximately three million hectares per year, it is crucial to understand how plantations can make a positive contribution to biodiversity conservation and how the potentially negative impacts of this land use can be minimised. That is the topic of this book.

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, 4 uniform volumes, 308, 292, 298 and 297 pages, all with black and white frontispiece New Editions , volumes in similar condition, corners bumped, spines darkened and with title labels missing, joints cracked but just holding, all internally clean, books in good condition , full mottled calf, gilt borders, gilt numbers on coloured leather spine labels 12mo Hardback ISBN:

Zustand: Molto buono. 4 volumi in-12° (cm.17,1), legature coeve in pieno vitello con titolo su tasselli in marocchino e filetti in oro ai dorsi (alcuni difetti), carte in buono stato, con 4 tavole illustrative in rame in antiporta (ritratto di Hawksworth e scene tratte dai testi); lieve brunitura uniforme. Il bisettimanale londinese The Adventurer (1752?1754) fu fondato da John Hawkesworth e Samuel Johnson, il cui linguaggio è già modernissimo: «proprio da lì la "narratologia" settecentesca attinge la soluzione del problema di come accorpare la varietà» [V. ?klovskij, Una teoria della prosa, Garzanti 1974, p.104] e il "romanzo inventato" può fare la sua comparsa per alimentare quella passione della lettura interiorizzata, in cui testo letterario e pensiero si confondono. Cfr. R. Loretelli, L?invenzione del romanzo. Dall?oralità alla lettura silenziosa, Laterza 2010, che sul tema cita generosamente proprio The adventurer. Buon esemplare. (SD4).

1 vols. Folio. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. Folio. "[Samuel] Johnson contributed 25 papers signed 'T', which he dictated and gave to Dr. Richard Balthurst, who sold them for two guineas each; 4 papers signed 'T and Misargyrus' were attributed to Balthurst" (Rothschild). Rothschild 1120 Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked. Beautiful copy. Signed.

2 volumes, folio, consisting of 140 twice-weekly numbers published between November 1752 and March 1754; pp. [6] 420; [6], 420; early 19th-century quarter straight-grain black morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering direct on spines; boards rubbed, but generally very good and sound. Edited by John Hawkesworth. "Unlike the Rambler, The Adventurer was, from the outset, planned as (probably two) volumes. From the beginning it is consecutively signed (a signature to each number of 3 leaves folio) as well as consecutively paginated; and at the end of No. 70 is printed 'The end of the First Volume' . Title-pages, Contents, and Mottoes (all present here) were issued in 1753 and 1754" (Chapman & Hazen). Johnson contributed 29 of the 140 papers; other contributors included Joseph Warton, Bonnell Thornton, and Hawkesworth, among others. Chapman & Hazen, p. 136; Courtney & Smith, p. 39; Fleeman 52.11Ad/1.

Zustand: Good. London 1820 first edition Harvey and Darton. Hardcover. Octavo, 288p. Stunning full-color plate frontispiece - "View from Warren Hill" - engraved by John Hawksworth with original tissue guard. Errata slip bound in, 3/4 leather with brown marbled boards. Mounted black leather spine label (small chip on lower corner of label with no loss of text) and gilt decorated spine. Good, light foxing on tissue guard, light discoloration on end papers, cover rubbed and worn, spine a bit chipped, outer hinges beginning to crack but still holding well; spine ends worn down. Text clean and bright -no foxing, no spotting, no wear; binding secure. Little is known about John Hawksworth other than that he began his work in London and that he was active 1819 - 48. Pictures available on request.

Set of Cook's three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes Second, third, and second editions. 8 quarto volumes, of text (first and second voyages: 290 by 230mm), (third voyage: 235 by 300mm), 3 folio atlases, (1st voyage: 455 by 280mm), (second voyage: 480 by 310mm), (third voyage: 545 by 400mm); 180 charts and plates, including Bartolozzi and Byrne's 'The Death of Captain Cook' (1785); uniformly (not identically) bound in full eighteenth century tree calf, spines elaborately gilt, with double red and green lettering-pieces. An excellent set of Cook's three voyages with three separate atlases. Cook (1728-1779) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and despatched by the Admiralty at the insistence of the Royal Society to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the face of the sun and to seek out the much discussed southern continent. Accompanying Cook were Joseph Banks (from the Royal Society), the Swedish naturalist Dr. Daniel Carl Solander and the artist Sydney Parkinson. Sailing via Madeira and Tierra del Fuego Tahiti was reached in April 1769 where the transit was successfully recorded in June of that year. From Tahiti Cook sailed to the South Pacific in search of the new continent, first striking the Society Islands, before reaching New Zealand, whose coast he surveyed. From thence Cook proceeded to New Holland surveying the whole East Coast, before returning home via Batavia, proving once and for all the New Guinea was not a part of Australia, a fact first shown by Torres in 1607. He finally reached England in 1771, anchoring off the Downs on 12th June, having lost one third of his crew. In July of the following year Cook, now promoted to the rank of Commander, set out once more for the southern Pacific in the Resolution with the Adventure. This voyage was particularly important since Cook made the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle and finally determined once and for all that the Southern Continent did not exist. In addition Cook secured the medal of the Royal Society by successfully irradicating scurvy through diet and better hygiene. Only three shipboard deaths (all resulting from accidents) were recorded on this voyage - a dramatic reduction from the one third who died on his first voyage. Cook's third voyage began in July 1776 and concentrated on the North Pacific, resulting in the discovery of Hawaii, which Cook considered to be his greatest feat. In addition the theory of a Northern passage connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic was also disproved. With him travelled George Vancouver who later charted the North West Coast of America and also the artist John Webber who provided Europe with many images of the Pacific. Cook however was killed on 14th February, 1779 in a shoreline skirmish. The tragic event is illustrated in Bartolozzi and Byrne's iconic separately published engraving, 'The Death of Captain Cook' (1785), included here, after the original painting by Webber. Captain King subsequently took over command of the expedition, which returned to England in 1780. Provenance: With the engraved armorial bookplates of Alexander Speirs of Eldersley. Literature: Beddie, 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook', 650, 1216, 1552; Hill, 'The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages', 783, 358, 361.