Smith robert h t ed (15 Ergebnisse)

kartoniert. 104 Seiten, mit Abbildungen 215 gr. sehr guter Zustand, eine Ecke am Cover leicht geknickt.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A smart seven volume set of illustrated editions of R.S. Surtees' sporting novels, with coloured plates throughout by John Leech and 'Phiz'. A seven volume set. Including six subscription edition novels, and one first edition copy of 'Young Tom Hall'. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original decorative red cloth bindings. A set of illustrated works of the English editor, novelist, and sporting writer Robert Smith Surtees, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He is mostly remembered for his invented character ofJorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. His novels are engaging and vigorous, and abound with sharp social observation, with a keen eye for the natural world.William Makepeace Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him "a master of life" and ranked him with Charles Dickens. Including the first edition of 'Young Tom Hall; His Heart-Aches and Horses', published in 1926, edited with an introduction by E.D. Cuming, illustrated with four coloured plates and twelve monochome plates by G. Denholm Armour. Collated, complete. With six volumes of the subscription edition, which are profusely illustrated by noted artists John Leech, 'Phiz', and W.T. Maud, with coloured plates engraved on steel, and in-text engravings throughout. All volumes have been collated, complete.This set comprises:'Hawbuck Grange; Or, the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq.', with eight coloured plates,'"Plain or Ringlets?"', with twelve coloured plates,'"Ask Mamma;" the Richest Commoner in England', with thirteen coloured plates,'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour', with thirteen coloured plates,'Mr. Romford's Hounds', with twenty-four coloured plates, and'Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt', with seventeen coloured plates. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, light fading to spines, with slight bumping to the heads and tails. Light spotting to endpapers. Ink inscription to front free endpaper of 'Young Tom Hall'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear. Light spotting to fore edges. Very Good Indeed. H.K. Browne; W.T. Maud; John Leech; G. Denholm Armour (illustrator). book.…