Thomson charles a (27 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1964. International Student Edition. 436 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. …

Zustand: Good. 1964. No Edition Stated. 436 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing and marking to boards, with tanning to spine. Dewy code to spine.…

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 435 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Original-Schutzumschlag vorhanden (siehe Foto). In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 845.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1900. 210pp. Very Good/None. Soft grey card covers with colour illustration pasted to front, minor rubbing/chipping to edges/spine, minor creasing to spine, very minor soiling. Contents clean and tight but for very minor browning. B&W illustrations by A B Frost and Gordon Thomson throughout. Attractive adverts to front and back including Lux, Onoto Pens and the Swan Fountain Pen. An early cheap edition of two of Dickens' more minor works, essentially travel writings from America and Italy. Scarce. Frost, A B / Thomson, Gordon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 469 pages. 2nd printing. Ex-university library marks, light wear and discoloring to the covers; pages tanned; a good solid binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 215508.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Firmly bound with no writing inside, pages are tanned, undated edition probably early 20th century, 210 numbered pages plus a few pages of vintage adverts at the back. With the original illustrations by A.B. Frost and Gordon Thomson (illustrator).

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. COPYRIGHT 1964 EDITION. VINTAGE PRINTING. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. See photos for more information. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Hardback, illustrative green cloth. 120pp, 16pp. Spine darkened, cloth to front board slightly crinkled. Previous owner's name written across title page. A decent copy. (bs138). Frost, A. B.; Thomson, Gordon (illustrator).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization during its first decade, dustjacket lightly scuffed, remainder mark otherwise unmarked, 469pp, VG/--. Book.

Zustand: Akzeptabel. Formateinband: Paperback / kartonierte Ausgabe XI, 522 S. International Students Edition, 2nd Edition; Außen etwas gealtert; Papier gebräunt; sonst in gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 [Stichwörter: Physik der Festkörper, Festkörperphysik].

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, xiv, 750 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is a sunned blue with gilt lettering. Boards have some shelf wear, minor bumping to corners, sunning, light rubbing, and minor tears and a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has light foxing, an ex-libris sticker on the front paste down, page 625 is partially shaken from the binding, and there is a small sticker on the top right corner of the rear paste down. Ex-Library. 1373050. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Xxxi, 654 Pp. Blue Cloth. Second Printing Stated. Fine, No Wear, No Marks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Three matching volumes, all heavily gilt 20 x 26 cm, each as follows: 1. "A Child's History of England" (image 1 & 4), 190 pages, illustrated by J. McL. Ralson., 2."Dombey and Son", 449 pages, illustrated by F. Barnard (image 2 & 5)., 3. "American Notes and Pictures from Italy". 210 pages , illustrated by A. B. Frost & Gordon Thomson (image 3). Sold as one collection. 2.5 kg with packing "Household Edition". A lovely set. J. McL. Ralson., F. Barnard., A. B. Frost & Gordon Thomson. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: New. pp. 768.

Zustand: Gut. Formateinband: Großformat, Pappband mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe 386 S. (28x29 cm) 1re edition; Gebundene Ausgabe in französischer Sprache (Mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen); priv. Widmung auf Vorsatzblatt; sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2600 [Stichwörter: Bildband, Ausstellungskatalog, Exposition]. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Reprint with corrections. lix, [1], 802 pages with in text illustrations and 44 plates at the end. Footnotes. Tables. Historical Notes. Indexes. Volume II ONLY. This is an ex-library book with library markings on both the dust jacket and in the book. DJ in plastic sleeve affixed to the boards, some soiling, and has tape stains inside flyleaves. The development of technology and the inventions that have marked the progress of civilization from the earliest times are described and examined in light of social, economic, and political trends. Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 - 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine. He served as medical officer in the British Army. Trained in medicine, he qualified for medical practice in 1903. He was appointed medical officer on an expedition to the border region between Abyssinia and Sudan. Forced to return to England on his father's death in 1908, he held positions at various hospitals in London until he moved to Oxford in 1914 to work with Sir William Osler. Singer accepted a commission as medical officer in the British Army in 1916, first as a pathologist and then as part of an archaeological expedition. At war's end, he returned to Oxford to lecture on the history of biology. In 1920 he was appointed to a lectureship in the history of medicine at University College of the University of London. He became president of the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, in 1920. Among the contributors were John Waterer, Cyril Aldred, Gisela Richter, Sherwood Taylor, Martin Briggs, Herbert Maryon, Philip Grierson, and Bertrand Gille. Singer continued research into various topics and published several noteworthy books, including editing the monumental A History of Technology, which was released in five volumes between 1954 and 1958. Eric John Holmyard (11 July 1891 - 13 October 1959) was an English science teacher at Clifton College, and historian of science and technology. His scholarly work included rectification of accounts of the history of alchemy, particularly in relation with Islamic science. He translated texts from Arabic and Latin, and wrote extensively on Geber. He was responsible with D. C. Mandeville for the re-attribution of the alchemical text De Mineralibus to an origin in Avicenna. Holmyard served as the founding editor of the scientific review and history of science journal Endeavour. Per Wikipedia: Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible products such as tools or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life. Technological advancements have led to significant changes in society. The earliest known technology is the stone tool, used during prehistory, followed by the control of fire-which in turn contributed to the growth of the human brain and the development of language during the Ice Age, according to the cooking hypothesis. The invention of the wheel in the Bronze Age allowed greater travel and the creation of more complex machines. More recent technological inventions, including the printing press, telephone, and the Internet, have lowered barriers to communication and ushered in the knowledge economy. While technology contributes to economic development and improves human prosperity, it can also have negative impacts such as pollution and resource depletion, and can cause social harms like technological unemployment resulting from automation. As a result, philosophical and political debates about the role and use of technology, the ethics of technology, and ways to mitigate its downsides are ongoing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. lv, 828, [9] pages + 36 plates, Volume 1 ONLY of the 5-vol. set. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (Contains many in text line drawings and 36 black-and-white full-page plates at the end of the volume). Maps. Figures. Tables. Chronological Tables. References. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with the usual library markings. DJ, has wear, tears, chips and soiling, DJ in plastic sleeve attached to the boards. Tape stains inside flyleaves. The development of technology and the inventions that have marked the progress of civilization from the earliest times are described and examined in light of social, economic, and political trends. Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine. He served as medical officer in the British Army. Trained in zoology and medicine, he qualified for medical practice in 1903. He was appointed medical officer on an expedition to the border region between Abyssinia and Sudan. Forced to return to England on his father's death in 1908, he held positions at various hospitals in London until he moved to Oxford in 1914 to work with Sir William Osler. Singer accepted a commission as medical officer in the British Army in 1916, first as a pathologist and then as part of an archaeological expedition. At war's end, he returned to Oxford to lecture on the history of biology. In 1920 he was appointed to a lectureship in the history of medicine at University College of the University of London. He became president of the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, in 1920. Includes contributions from L. S. B. Leakey, Grace, Crowfoot, Herbert Maryon, Gordon Childe,Zeuner, and Neugebauer. Singer continued research into various topics and published several noteworthy books, including editing the monumental A History of Technology, which was released in five volumes between 1954 and 1958. Eric John Holmyard (11 July 1891 13 October 1959) was an English science teacher at Clifton College, and historian of science and technology. His scholarly work included rectification of accounts of the history of alchemy, particularly in relation with Islamic science. He translated texts from Arabic and Latin, and wrote extensively on Geber. He was responsible with D. C. Mandeville for the re-attribution of the alchemical text De Mineralibus to an origin in Avicenna. Holmyard served as the founding editor of the scientific review and history of science journal Endeavour. Per Wikipedia: Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible products such as tools or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life. Technological advancements have led to significant changes in society. The earliest known technology is the stone tool, used during prehistory, followed by the control of firewhich in turn contributed to the growth of the human brain and the development of language during the Ice Age, according to the cooking hypothesis. The invention of the wheel in the Bronze Age allowed greater travel and the creation of more complex machines. More recent technological inventions, including the printing press, telephone, and the Internet, have lowered barriers to communication and ushered in the knowledge economy. While technology contributes to economic development and improves human prosperity, it can also have negative impacts such as pollution and resource depletion, and can cause social harms like technological unemployment resulting from automation. As a result, philosophical and political debates about the role and use of technology, the ethics of technology, and ways to mitigate its downsides are ongoing. Third Impression, with correction [stated]. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Volumes from the Household edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.5 inches). Text in double column. American Notes & Pictures from Italy are finely illustrated with eighteen engravings, some full page, by Frost and Thomson, The Uncomercial Traveller with twenty six by Dalziel. Attractive early leather binding of half black calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt floral design. Compartments ruled in gilt and decorated with blind stamped chain borders and floral centre tool. Red and olive morocco labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Tan endpapers. Some offsetting to both free endpapers, probably a reaction to the glue used in the paste-downs. All edges speckled. Some minor rubbing to extremities and scratching to the leather of the two bottom outer board corner pieces, but overall this is a lovely copy in a fine Victorian binding.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: An Old Turnpike Road of California - from Placerville to Virginia City - article with great photos; Mountain Ferns for the Home - photo-illustrated article; Student Life at Stanford University - article with wonderful photos; Upspringing Waters (poem); The Mustering of the Herds; The Federal's Own (story); The Plant of the Alden Company; A Timely rescue; How Can It Be? (poem); Beyond the Realm of Law (story); At Catalina (poem); An Angel to Caliban (story); In the Lion's Den; The Sequoya League, "To Make Better Indians" - five-page article dealing with the destitution of many reservations of the Mission Indians; The Southwest Society, Archaeological Inst. of America; The Landmarks Club; That Which is Written (reviews). [16 ads], 401-496, [32 ads] pp. Prior owner's name atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. Back cover nearly loose. Binding intact. Fascinating content with many photos and beautifully illustrated vintage ads, including several for California cities.; Illustrator; Sm 4to.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A collection of eighteen volumes of works from noted 19th century author Charles Dickens, illustrated throughout. Eighteen volumes of twenty-two. Household edition from Chapman & Hall, London. Each volume includes an illustrated frontispiece. A collection of novels from Charles Dickens, an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. With illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne or "Phiz", an English artist and illustrator; Arthur Burdett Frost, an American illustrator, graphic artist, and comic writer; Gordon Thomson, an English draughtsman and figure artist; John McLaren Ralston, a Scottish illustrator and designer; James Mahoney, an Irish artist and engraver; Francis Arthur Fraser, a prolific Scottish illustrator; Edward G. Dalziel, an English illustrator and engraver; Charles Green, a British watercolourist and illustrator; Fred Barnard, an English illustrator and caricaturist; and Luke Fildes, a British painter and illustrator. This set includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, with fifty-seven illustrations. American Notes and Pictures from Italy, with eighteen illustrations. A Child's History of England, with fifteen illustrations. The Adventures of Oliver Twist, with twenty-eight illustrations. Great Expectations, with thirty illustrations. Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round", with twenty-three illustrations. Little Dorrit, with fifty-eight illustrations. The Old Curiosity Shop, with thirty-nine illustrations. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People, with thirty-four illustrations. Christmas Books, with twenty-eight illustrations. The Uncommercial Traveller, with twenty-six illustrations. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories, with thirty illustrations and two clippings from the Daily Mail newspaper dated 1928. Dombey and Son, with sixty-two illustrations. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of "Eighty", with forty-six illustrations. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with fifty-none illustrations. The Personal History of David Copperfield, with sixty-one illustrations. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with fifty-nine illustrations. Our Mutual Friend, with fifty-eight illustrations. Collated complete. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. A small split in the cloth to the front joint of David Copperfield. Hinges of Oliver Twist sympathetically reinforced with tape. Front hinge starting but firm to Nicholas Nickleby. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot to the main text and scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. A small tear to page 47 of Oliver Twist where the textblock has been opened harshly. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper of Pickwick Papers covering a contemporary ink inscription. Ink stamp to the front pastedown of Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, David Copperfield, and Martin Chuzzlewit. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of Little Dorrit and David Copperfield, and to the rear pastedown of Martin Chuzzlewit. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good. Phiz; A. B. Frost; Gordon Thomson; J. McL. Ralston; J. Mahoney; F. A. Fraser; E. G. Dalziel; C. Green; F. Barnard; L. Fildes (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Full leather cover with extensive gilt decoration shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, discoloration. All edges gilt. Pages tanned and clean. Contemporary name of former owner dated 1843 in the prelims. 8 plates. Scarce.