Lubbock j w (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1981. First Edition. 175 pages. No dust jacket. Blue boards with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated in b/w by Howard Penton. Rewritten by Lubbock from Englefield's account of the buildings and halls of London's various trade guilds. Handsome blue faux-leather, printed on thick paper. 4to. Small crease to bottom of title page, else clean and tight. Good/very good.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A good copy of this original paper read before the Royal Society. Disbound - but in very good condition with no loose pages. With 5pp -.

Disbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With 8 pages - disbound but with no loose pages in excellent condition , a paper read before the Royal Society - on the pendulum.

Disbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With 6pp - very good condition - disbound but with no loose pages - one of the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. LUBBOCK, Sir J.W. An Elementary Treatise on the Tides, based upon that of the late J.W. Lubbock . to which is added a newly-devised method of computation of the heights of high water at Liverpool, with factors for other ports and tables adopted by the Admiralty, by James Pearson. [4], 33, [13]pp tables and index., errata slip., 5 plates (one folding, map.) Some age toning to the paper but a good copy in original gilt lettered dark blue cloth. Scarce. 8vo. J.D. Potter. 1881.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. A one-volume reissue of works published between 1832 and 1861, including writings on astronomy, gases and the tides. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

1st edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 175 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; "Produced and published under the patronage of Jones Lang Wooton, Chartered Surveyors of London" -- half title page. Bibliography: p .175. Subjects; Guildhalls England London Pictorial works. Livery companies. London (England) Buildings, structures, etc. 1 Kg.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Even while professionally engaged in banking, Sir John William Lubbock (1803-65) applied his formidable mind to scientific questions. Several of his early writings on astronomy - his particular sphere of interest - are gathered together in this reissue, notably On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth, and the Elements of its Orbit (1832), On the Theory of the Moon and on the Perturbations of the Planets (1833), and An Elementary Treatise on the Computation of Eclipses and Occultations (1835). Lubbock received a Royal Society medal for tidal research in 1834, and herein is his Elementary Treatise on the Tides (1839). Also included is Lubbock's On the Heat of Vapours and on Astronomical Refractions (1840), in which he relates celestial observations to Gay-Lussac's gas expansion law. The collection closes with On the Discovery of the Planet Neptune (1861), Lubbock's lecture discussing how John Couch Adams first predicted the planet's existence.…

pp. 44. Stitched into stiff paper wrappers, a very good copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. A lovely illustrated study of the halls of London's livery companies. First edition.In the original cloth binding.Featuring many full-page and half-page drawings by Richard Howard Penton, being his final works before his passing and appearing here for the first time posthumously.A delightful account of the origins, members and halls of London's liveries, including Bakers, Carpenters, Mercers, Fishmongers, Stationers and Innholders. With details concerning the damages and restorations dealt with from the Second World War.Based on the original manuscript by W. A. D. Englefield and re-written and edited by Peter J. A. Lubbock. In the original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear. A few faint small spots to the front board. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. Howard Penton (illustrator). book.…

London, Charles Knight and Co., 1839. Contemp. hcloth. Stamp on title-page. VIII,54,(2) pp., 2 folded tables and 1 folded map. First edition of a work in which Lubbock summarizes his importent contributions to his work on tides (in Philosophical Transactions). For his work on the tides Lubbock received from the Royal Society one of the two medals awarded in 1833.…