Rev william whewell (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1837. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edg…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 21.5 cm x 14 cm xv + 381 pages some spotting to first and last few pages.Contents tight no inscriptions, bound in later circa 1900 half green calf cloth sides.Spine in 6 compartments with ornate gilt tooling 2 contrasting labels, binding clean and tight no splits or stains. Bridgewater…

Disbound, 19pp., inc. title, some faint foxing, good condition. Note on the background: But Flamsteed was furious when Sir Isaac Newton, who regularly used his data for his own studies, grew tired of Flamsteed's insistence on double-checking every detail before allowing his data to be published and rushed out an error-strewn ver…

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 381, [1]. lacking half-title. contemporary half calf (rubbed, library stamp on title). Second Edition. One of a series of eight works on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation, known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'. They were written at the request of the trustees of Francis H…

First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Twentieth century tan quarter sheep over russet cloth boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spines, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, blind tooled device to the others. Very good. Whewell was a prolific writer and something of a scientific polymath, concerning himself w…