Verlag: Royal Historical Society, 1994
ISBN 10: 0861931416 ISBN 13: 9780861931415
Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket No. 18. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Verlag: Shire Publications, 1988
ISBN 10: 0852639635 ISBN 13: 9780852639634
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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.
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Verlag: Shire, 2008
ISBN 10: 0747802408 ISBN 13: 9780747802402
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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.
Verlag: RHS, 1995
ISBN 10: 0521551528 ISBN 13: 9780521551526
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Hardback. 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.
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Verlag: Editions des Deux Coqs d'or, 1989
ISBN 10: 2719211915 ISBN 13: 9782719211915
Anbieter: Ammareal, Morangis, Frankreich
Zustand: Bon. Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Couverture différente. Edition 1989. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Edition 1989. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
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Verlag: Imprint unknown 22/07/1985, 1985
ISBN 10: 0856138363 ISBN 13: 9780856138362
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: Hakluyt Society, 2008
ISBN 10: 0904180905 ISBN 13: 9780904180909
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2008. Cloth, dj. Large 8vo. Some shelfwear to dj.
Verlag: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, London, 1994
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; ix, 465pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, including some mild bumping to top and bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Near Fine. In publisher's series "Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.".
Verlag: The Hakluyt Society - Ashgate, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0904180905 ISBN 13: 9780904180909
Anbieter: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australien
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Hard Cover. Zustand: F. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: F. First Edition. F/F. 4to. original blue cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. xii (last blank), 404, with 50 figures & 11 maps + loosely enclosed Corrigenda slip. Heavy item (1.75kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy.
Verlag: Harriet Wynter, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0950725803 ISBN 13: 9780950725802
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo, 75 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Orange and white spine with white and black text. Dust jacket has sunning to spine, chipping to spine edges, wrinkling to spine edges, light toning along edges, and mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have light bumping to spine edges. Textblock has light foxing to edges. Shelved Room A. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378761. Special Collections.
Verlag: Harriet Wynter Ltd, London, England, 1980
Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, USA
Hardcover. Limited Edition. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 6 in., pp. 74. Limited edition of 500 copies. Illustrted with black and white photographs and line drawings. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Printed on glossy paper. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. Anita McConnell (1936-2016) was a writer on the history of science and a curator of oceanography and geophysics at the Science Museum, London. She is most widely known for her popular Shire book on barometers but also wrote many books on the history of oceanography and British scientific instrument makers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus.
Verlag: Adam Hilger Ltd. Bristol, 1982
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st Ed. Sm. thin 4to. [xii] + 162pp. 155 figures. With the signature and bookplate of Ann Savours Shirley, sl. rubbed blue d/w. US$56.
Verlag: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, London, 2007
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
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First Thus. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped in blue dust jacket; x,404pp; color illustrations. Bright and sound, though slightly cocked, else near Fine. Jacket slightly rubbed, Near Fine. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 18.
Verlag: Aldershot Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007
Anbieter: Aquila Antiquariaat, Lochem, GLD, Niederlande
8vo, 23,2cm. Pp. xvii,318, 3 coloured plates, several illustr. in text, notes & refs., bibliogr., index. Hardbound, printed boards with pictorial dust-jacket. Fine, like new. - [gkt.int.1136].
Verlag: Ashgate, Aldershot (UK), 2007
Anbieter: M.POLLAK ANTIQUARIAT Est.1899, ABA, ILAB, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Orig.cloth with Dust-Jacket. Zustand: Near Fine. XV+318pp. Many illustrations, some in colour. A FINE COPY- LIKE NEW. SHIPPING WORLDWIDE INCLUDED.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Nov 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0754661369 ISBN 13: 9780754661368
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century. In this, the first biography of Jesse Ramsden, Dr Anita McConnell reconstructs the great instrument maker's life and career and presents us with a detailed account of the instrument trade in this period.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Anbieter: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: A fine copy. 2007, London, Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, small 4to, ppx + 404, black and white illustrations, blue cloth in dustwrapper. This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. The first of these is the journal of a participant in a Spanish expedition sent from Mexico to explore the north-west coast of America. From the outset, difficulties plagued the voyage. Bodega's ship, a small schooner named Sonora, was not designed for open-ocean voyaging. A landing party was attacked and killed; midway into the voyage the Sonora became separated from her flagship; and later she was nearly capsized by a massive wave. Bodega's journal records the voyage's travails, hardships, discoveries and eventual return. Next comes the journal of Commander Stokes, who served in command of HMS Beagle, under Captain P. P. King during the survey of the Straits of Magellan in 1827. This is an account of a detached operation, in very difficult weather conditions, in the western part of the strait. It is introduced by remarks on the expedition and the hydrographic history of the strait from its discovery to the inception of the survey and supplemented by remarks from Captain King's account and also that of the clerk, Macdouall. The third text is the journal of a young midshipman in HMS Chanticleer, a small vessel commanded by Henry Foster, RN, who had recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific work in the Arctic. The voyage of 1828-31 was to make observations in the South Atlantic to determine the shape of the Earth and to ascertain the longitudes of a number of ports. Kay's lively diary describes the Chanticleer's encounters with warships of the Brazilian navy, largely manned by Englishmen. He records his struggle to take observations at Deception Island during gales and snowstorms, and near Cape Horn in fierce squalls and constant chilling rain, nevertheless remaining cheerful in the company of his fellow midshipmen. The final piece is the diary of Jacob Wainwright, the young African freed slave who carved the inscription on the tree beneath which David Livingstone's heart was buried, covering his journey back to the coast with the body. This remarkable record throws important light on conditions in East Africa in the 1870s as well as on the story of Livingstone and the ulimately tragic life of Wainwright himself. Here published for the first time in English, it also throws some odd lights on Victorian missionary and publishing activities.