Smyth charles h (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Paper cover rubbed at extremities with a little fraying. Pages lightly age-tanned; First edition (first printing). Paperback; Measures 7¼" x 5" (0.3 kg); pp 68; Preface by G. Kitson Clark; These addresses were broadcast on the Home Service of the B. B. C. between May 27 and July I, 1951, and are printed as delivered, with only minor alterations. || 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 #173412 ||.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 133 Pp. Blue Grey Cloth, Gilt. Very Good +, Lightly Used, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, No Marks.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Periodical. Small quarto. viii, P.193-400pp. Printed wrappers. Wraps lightly worn, a bit of foxing on the page edges and on the first few pages, spine toned and cocked, about very good. Featuring Thomas Wolfe's short story "Three O'Clock" a vivid fragment from a great American novel entitled *The Web and the Rock*. Other contributions by David H. Popper, Grace Adams, Elizabeth Carrington Eggleston, Charles Angoff, and others. Scarce, *OCLC* locates only 2 copies.…

Soft cover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Pp. xii, 13-127. Half-title, dedication leaf, preface. With text figures. Appendices. Original errata slip tipped-in onto the appropriate place. Original publisher's printed stiff wrappers, spine frayed. In a very good condition, fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Most uncommon in this issue of original publisher's printed wrappers and including the practically always missing errata-slip. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) was astronomer-royal for Scotland, professor of practical astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. He was heavily influenced by pyramid theorist John Taylor who theorized that the Great Pyramid was planned and the building supervised by the biblical Noah. Refused a grant by the Royal Society, Smyth went on an expedition to Egypt in order to accurately measure every surface, dimension, and aspect of the Great Pyramid. He subsequently published his book "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid" (1864). He claimed that the measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, a God-given measure handed down through the centuries from the time of Israel. His conclusion was that the architects of the pyramid could only have been directed by the hand of God. ~ [Provenance:] With inscription and contemporary bookplate of Norfolk & Norwich Library on cover. Beinlich-Seeber 18874, quoting the book unseen. [NOTE: We offer also the FIRST EDITION, in original binding, of Smyth' "A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865"]. M-2. ~ ~ NOTE: TOTAL REDUCTION SALE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator). …