mclachlan norman (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. plates in colour by Norman C.K. Lighton and Kenneth Newman, black and white illustrations by J. Adams and H. Gronvold (illustrator). 4th Edition. Small tears, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket, not price clipped. Reprint of the 1978 fourth edition.

Zustand: Good. 6th impression 1982. Bumps to cover edges. Worn price-clipped dustjacket with tanning/staining/scratches/scuffs/tears. Inscription at front. Tanning to pages. Content good.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Lighton, Norman C. K. & Newman, Kenneth (illustrator). 4th Edition. xxix 660pp hardback, green laminated boards gilt in wrapper, wrapper price-clipped, very good in a very good wrapper, frontis 72 colour plates, map end-papers etc, subscribers' edition.

Zustand: Very good.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Norman C. K. Lighton, Kenneth Newman, J. Adams & H. Gronvold (illustrator). Condition Notes: A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper which is a little dulled. Previous owners' name to the dust wrapper flap. The contents complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8¾" x 6¼" (1.4 kg); pp (xxxii) 660; Index; Preface by Field-Marshal J. C. Smuts; 4th (revised) edition, 1st printing, first published 1940. Includes: Index: Names; Distribution maps; Colour plates; Black & white drawings; List of abbreviations; Maps to the lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #205880 ||.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Norman Lighton and J. Perry & K. Hooper (illustrator). Third Edition. Pp. xxxii, 643; numerous colour and b/w plates. Original dust jacket very good, toned to the spine with a little rubbing to edges, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking tipped onto the front pastedown, no inscriptions. A very good copy in a very good to near fine jacket. Particularly scarce with the jacket. [Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales, the event which inspired the ingenious title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird", 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1,800 species, and his pictures have appeared in some 1,000 books, including the popular New Naturalist series, of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist.] Peter Steyn -a lifetime devoted to the study of all things birds, outstanding contribution to ornithological science. Peter Steyn's published books are: Eagle Days (1973); A Guide to the Common Birds of Wankie (later Hwange) National Park (1974), which remained in print for 25 years; his major work, Birds of Prey of Southern Africa (1982), which ran to three impressions and still remains the definitive reference work on these raptors; A Delight of Owls (1984); Hunters of the African Sky (1990); Birds of Southern Africa (1991); his second major - and a lifetime's - work, Nesting Birds (1996); and Antarctic Impressions - Seasons in the Southern Ocean ( 2007). Size: 8vo. Book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1955. Second edition. xii, 239 pp. Publisher's cloth. Bookplate. Fine condition. (Oxford engineering science series).

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964. xii, 401 pp. Paperback. Bookplate. Good condition.

8vo. xii, 401, [1] pp. Index, p. 290 has a tipped-in printed addenda to the text. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. WARMLY INCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Charles Strachan, 8 June 1951. First edition of the first book on Mathieu functions and Spheroidal functions. McLachlan is also famous for his pioneering work on loud speakers, issued in 1925. Born in Britain, after WWII he found work teaching at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, then briefly at the University of Michigan before landing at Brown University, both teaching this subject. PROVENANCE: Charles Strachan (1907-1993), Scottish mathematician and physicist, Reader at the University of Aberdeen, he mentored Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (1892-1975), the son of J.J. Thomson, who earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. "Quantum ideas were being shaped into a mathematical theory which could be applied to a vast range of hitherto intractable problems. Charles Strachan was to be among the young mathematical physicists who seized on the opportunities thus offered. He duly completed his undergraduate work in Aberdeen with a First Class Honours degree. At that time it was standard practice in Scottish universities for the best graduates aiming at an academic career to read for a further undergraduate degree at Oxford or Cambridge. G P Thomson arranged for him to go to Thomson's former Cambridge College (Corpus Christi), where he undertook an accelerated tripos, attending courses by such great names in relativity and quantum theory as Eddington and Dirac. Charles Strachan achieved the distinction of becoming Junior Wrangler. He then embarked on research at Cambridge, first under R H Fowler and then under J E Lennard Jones, and was awarded a Cambridge PhD in 1935. Prominent among his pre-war researches were investigations, the earliest in collaboration with Lennard Jones, of the interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces. These papers brought out some important quantum effects in the behaviour of systems of many atoms and presented mathematical procedures which made possible the application of quantum mechanics to the quantitative treatment of these effects. They represented significant early contributions not only to surface physics but more generally to aspects of solid state physics which are still the subject of extensive investigation. Part of this work was done at Aberdeen, where he held an assistantship and then a lectureship between 1933 and 1937. In 1937 he was invited by Professor Max Born to take up a temporary lectureship for one year in his Department in Edinburgh and he clearly decided that the opportunity of working with this very great theoretical physicist could not be missed." :: C. W. McCombie. See: J. Meixner, F.W. Schafke, G. Wolf, Mathieu Functions and Spheroidal Functions and their Mathematical Foundations, Springer, 1980.