Verlag: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1893
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: USED_FAIR. 1893. No Edition Stated. 287 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Front endpaper missing. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing and marking to boards. Dewy code to spine.
Verlag: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1893
Anbieter: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, gilt titles to spine. xi, 287pp, 72pp. Illustrated. With additional insert of Ward Ventilation Test Results. 1st edition 1893. Binding is a little marked and worn. Occasional marginal markings in pencil. Private ownership. (r41) [AIKEN].
Verlag: Oxford: at the Clarendon Press?, 1893
Anbieter: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. xi, 287, + 8 pages of publisher?s adverts at the end. Illustrations in the text. Original olive-green cloth (upper inner hinge previously damaged with neat repair to two tears in endpaper), black endpapers, uncut and partly unopened. FIRST EDITION. Includes a ?List of some of the books consulted??.
Verlag: Oxford: at the Clarendon Press,, 1880
Anbieter: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. xi, 296, + 36 pages of adverts dated July 1880. Illustrations and plans in the text. Original olive-green cloth, black endpapers, uncut. Some very slight foxing on the first and last pages, otherwise a clean copy. Author?s complimentary card loosely inserted. Signature ?Belper? on front endpaper. A family copy: Galton?s father-in-law was the uncle of Edward Strutt, first Lord Belper. FIRST EDITION. G&M 1621. ?Perhaps Galton's most important work, however, was in the development of sanitary engineering. The Herbert Hospital at Woolwich was designed by him when he was at the War Office, and many improvements in barracks and hospitals were due to his initiative? Galton published several books on the role of sanitary engineering in the construction of hospitals and homes, as well as several reports on sewage and drainage. He was among the first and strongest supporters of the Parkes Museum and was chairman of its council from 1882 to 1888. He was also a member of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, and acted as chairman of its council from 1885 to 1887? (ODNB).