sir edward bailey (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, age tone and creasing.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo, pages 351 - 402, portrait frontispiece and 4 black and white plates, figures, brown wrappers lightly worn. Issued as Volume LX111, Part 4 of Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original plain brown card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 206 printed pages of text with monochrome maps, illustrations and photographs throughout. Age browning to the spine and margins of the covers, Charles Lyell written by hand to the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. PROOF COPY (Advance).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875), showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)., showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed.".