Whewell rev william (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. 1837. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Small splits to spine ends. Light marks to boards.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. ex-library copy with usual markings. cover shows minor wear, rubbing, fading, and bumped corners. pages lightly tanned and foxed.

Cloth Boards. 4th Edition. 4th edition, pp xvi, 381, 1 page works of Whewell, scattered foxing throughout, rebacked with maroon title pieces, orig blue cloth laid to covers, good. Bridgewater Treatise no. 3.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 21.5 cm x 14 cm xv + 381 pages some spotting to first and last few pages.Contents tight no inscriptions, bound in later circa 1900 half green calf cloth sides.Spine in 6 compartments with ornate gilt tooling 2 contrasting labels, binding clean and tight no splits or stains. Bridgewater Treatises, no 3 .…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A smart early edition of this interesting philosophical work in a contemporary full-calf binding. Early edition. Smartly bound in full contemporary calf. Featuring the preface by the Reverend William Whewell, a former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and influential polymath. An intriguing study of the development of ethical philosophy throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Written by James Mackintosh, a Scottish jurist and Whig politician, whose interests extended to the fields of medicine, history and philosophy. Smartly bound in full contemporary calf. With the bookplate of Edward Festi Kelly to the front paste down. Externally, smart with reasonable shelf wear, leading to light loss of leather and marking, especially to the extremities and rear board. Internally, firmly bound. More significant spotting to the first and last few pages, otherwise generally bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Disbound, 19pp., inc. title, some faint foxing, good condition. Note on the background: But Flamsteed was furious when Sir Isaac Newton, who regularly used his data for his own studies, grew tired of Flamsteed's insistence on double-checking every detail before allowing his data to be published and rushed out an error-strewn version of the 'Historia Colestis Britannica' in 1712.| Feeling deeply betrayed by Newton and Edmund Halley who had edited the volume, Flamsteed spent a small fortune buying up as many copies as he could before publicly burning them at the Royal Observatory.| Newton responded by removing all references to Flamsteed from his 'Principia Mathematica' despite the astronomer's huge contribution to the volume." [BBC].…

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 381, [1]. lacking half-title. contemporary half calf (rubbed, library stamp on title). Second Edition. One of a series of eight works on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation, known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'. They were written at the request of the trustees of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and final Earl of Bridgewater [1756-1829], in accordance with the provisions of his will.…

First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Twentieth century tan quarter sheep over russet cloth boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spines, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, blind tooled device to the others. Very good. Whewell was a prolific writer and something of a scientific polymath, concerning himself with the development and understanding of the wider reaches of the subject rather than specialising in specific branches. Indeed, it was said that Charles Lyell initially regretted that his contemporary didn't concentrate his great intellect on particular sciences, but subsequently came to the opinion that "by being a universalist rather than a specialist he was assisting the progress of science". (ODNB).…