william w johnston (19 Ergebnisse)

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

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

0 First printing. ix p., 1 L., 259 p. 20 cm. Very Good. No dust jacket. light shelfwear, .

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Fourth Edition. Crudely bound in fine ribbed modern cloth. Slight wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the Dover Public Library with the owner's bookplate and library marks. Series; Bohn's standard library. Physical description; vol. I (only): 518 pages ; 1 portrait (including frontispiece) ; 19 cm. Subjects; Inventions History. Science history. Inventions. Inventions History. Trades and industries History. Discoveries in science History. Technological innovations. Material culture. Inventions History. Discoveries in science History. Inventions. Science Technology History. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 72 pp. ; illustrated ; 27 cm. ISSN: 0140-427X; National Library: 427690-5; 010538609; LCCN: 80-644443 ; LC: GA192; Dewey: 912/.05 ; preceeded by publication: M, the map collector, Issue no. 1-7; Dec. 1977-June 1979 ; issued from 1979-1996 ; Absorbed by: Mercator's world, with v. 1, no. 3 of that title./ No. 1-20, 1977-82. ; OCLC: 6524436 ; pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: Columbus and maps / F. Fernandez-Armesto -- Maps and the invention of America / J B Harley -- In the wake of Columbus / Robin Knox-Johnston -- Is the Paris map the long-sought chart of Columbus? / H. Wallis -- Native American maps and world views in the Age of Encounter / L. De Vorsey, Jr. -- Large-scale English county maps and plans of cities not printed in atlases. Part 15. Hertfordshire / E. M. Rodger -- News and views -- Book reviews and letters to the editor -- Collectors' barometer -- Collectors' marketplace -- Index to advertisers -- Forthcoming issues. List of Distributors -- 40 years of service at LoC / Ralph Ehrenberg -- IMCOS down under / Christopher Terrell -- Memorial service held in the USA / Ellen Hanlon ; ex-lib, stamps ; else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 362 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt And Stamped In Blind. First Printing, With Doran Logo And "A" On Copyright Page. Lightly Used, Spine Gilt Complete But Weak, A Few Tiny Points Of Fraying At Corners, Hinges Tight. Christmas Gift Inscription.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Frontispiece, Illustrated Title Page, Illustrations In Text (illustrator). 1st Edition. Viii, 688 Pp. Full Year With "Corrections" On Last Page. Recent Full Green Cloth, Red Morocco Spine Label, Retaining Original Preliminary And Final Blanks. Articles By Edward Blyth At Pp 40 "An Attempt To Classify The 'Varities' Of Animals.", P. 198 "A Few Remarks On Hybrids.", P. 325 "Observations On The Cuckoo", P. 364 " A Notice Of A Very Remarkable Individual Of The Common Shrike."; Charles Waterton P. 166, 251, 322, 361, 453, 451, 663; W. J. Clarke P. 1 "On Certain Meteoric Phenomena"; Etc. The Blyth Article Is The First Extended Discussion Of The Basic Principles Of Natural Selection; Darwin Read Blyth's Work Carefully, And Was A Friend Of Blyth; Loren Eiseley's "Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X" Is An Account Of Their Relationship, With Some Errors But Generally Correct. Binding As New; Preliminary And Final Blanks With Browning And Light Chipping At Corners; Contents Fine, Clean, Square, Unworn. No Names Or Marks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. volumes 1 and 2 only. half-leather covers show minor wear, rubbing. pages tanned and clean. bookplates on front pastedown.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Greene-Bauman; Pike, John; Geiger-Rapho-Guillumette; Gregori, Leon; Zaltsman, Joseph; Cooper, Mario; Prince, Meade; Peskin-Pix, David; Brown, Elmore (illustrator). First Edition. 98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th ed., carefully revised and enlarged by William Francis . and J.W. Griffith .; 2 v. 2 port. (incl. front.) 19 cm. ; Series: Bohn's standard library ; LCCN: 05-33752 ; LC: T15; Dewey: 608.9 ; OCLC: 564976 ; Tr. from the German, by William Johnston. ; German edition published 1783-1805 with title: Beyträge zur geschichte der erfindungen. ; "Although the plan of this new edition of Beckmann's ' History of Inventions and Discoveries' was to confine it to the subjects treated of in the original work, yet we feel it imperative to make an exception in favour of the Steam-Engine, the most important of all modern inventions. " ; Contents: Vol.1 -- Italian Bookkeeping -- Refining Gold and Silver Ore by Quicksilver -- Canary Bird -- Secret Poison -- Wooden Bellows -- Waterclocks Clepsydras -- Ananas Pineapple -- Coloured Glass Artificial Gems -- Collections of Natural Curiosities -- Chimneys -- Hungary Water -- Apothecaries -- Clocks and Watches -- Quarantine -- Paperhangings -- Kermes Cochineal -- Sealingwax -- Verdigris or Spanish Green -- Alum -- Falconry -- Turf -- Artichoke -- Sawmills -- Stamped Paper -- Adulteration of Wine -- Artificial Pearls -- Paving of Streets -- Writingpens -- Wiredrawing -- Buckwheat -- Saddles -- Horseshoes -- Floating of Wood -- Lace -- Cobalt Zaffer Smalt -- Turkeys -- Butter -- Aurum Fulminans -- Vol 2 -- The Steam-Engine, and Discoveries of James Watt -- Lending and Pawnbroking -- Chemical Names of Metals -- Zinc -- Carp -- Camp-mills -- Mirrors -- Glass-cutting. Etching on Glass -- Soap -- Madder -- Jugglers, Rope-dancers, Automata -- Artificial Ice. Cooling Liquors -- Hydrometer -- Lighting of Streets -- Night-watch -- Plant-skeletons -- Bills of Exchange -- Tin. Tinning -- Sowing-machines -- Manganese -- Prince Rupert's Drops. Lacrymae Vitreae -- Fire-engines -- Indigo -- Vanes. Weathercocks -- Gilding -- Fur Dresses -- Steel -- Stamping-works -- Kitchen Vegetables -- Knitting Nets and Stockings. Stocking-Loom -- Hops -- Black Lead -- Sal-Ammoniac -- Forks -- Lottery. Tontine -- Bologna Stone -- Foundling Hospitals -- Orphan Houses -- Infirmaries. Hospitals for Invalids. Field Lazarettos -- Cock-fighting -- Saltpetre. Gunpowder. Aquafortis -- Book-censors -- Exclusive Privilege for Printing Books -- Catalogues of Books -- Ribbon-Loom -- Guns. Gun-Locks; foxing, else VG/VG. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Kling, Wendell; Chapin, James (cover); Hallman, A.; Temple, Willard H.; Groth, John; Wiggins, K.; Lewicki, James; Kling, Wendell; (illustrator). First Edition. 82 pages. Articles: The Kids Get a Night Club - Rochester's teenagers solve their entertainment problem; The A-Bomb's Invisible Offspring - the menace of radioactivity from atomic blasts - article with scary photos; The Balkan Follies - how Americans are browbeaten in Moscowized southeast Europe (Yugoslavia); Little Man on a Horse - sketches of backstage life of the big-time jockeys; I Stopped Stammering - how he was cured - Dr. Richard R. Hutcheson and the district speech clinic in Washington, D.C.; They Kicked Us Off Our Land (conclusion) - the misuse of public grazing lands. Includes ads for: Duraglas bottles; Ipana toothpaste - featuring Bryan Cornell and his mother; General Electric entertainment products (in colour); Admiral FM-AM phonograph with miracle tone arm; U.S. Royal tires; International Harvester products - trucks, dozers, tractors and appliances; Ford woody wagons; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Colgate tooth paste; Lucky Stricke cigarettes; Ballantine Ale - featuring Victorian bathing suits; Good Year - centerfold; Kingsey gin; GM Electro-Motive Division; Veedol motor oil; "The Long Night" movie starring Henry Fonda; Schlitz beer; Polaroid sportglas - modelled by Bill Stern and Margaret Young; Acushnet golf balls; Back cover Chesterfield cigarette ad features large color image of actor Charles Boyer. A worthy vintage copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. W. & A. K. Johnston (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this sought after atlas looking in depth at the geography of India, illustrated with sixteen colour folding maps. With an introduction by Sir William Wilson Hunter. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. in excellent condition and complete. With a colour folding map to the frontispiece, and fifteen colour folding maps. With two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. A collection of maps of India, being an atlas showing Lower Bengal, North-West Provinces, Oudh, and Nepal, East Punjab and Kashmir, West Punjab, British Baluchistan, and North-Western Frontier, Rajputana and Ajmer-Merwara, Central India, Central Provinces, Hyderabad and Berar, North Bombay and Baroda, South Bombay, South Madra, Mysore and Coorg, North Madras, South Orissa, and Ceylon, North British Burma, Assam and Manipur, South British Burma, Andaman, Nicobar Islands, and plans of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. An attractive look at the state of India in the late nineteenth century, when it was still under British rule. An interesting comparison to modern day India. With an introduction by William Wilson Hunter, a Scottish Historian, a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is best known for 'The Imperial Gazetteer of India', a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire. Published by W. & A. K. Johnston, which was one of the major map publishers in the nineteenth century. The firm was founded in 1826 by brothers William Johnston and Alexander Keith Johnston. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. A very scared first edition of this colourful atlas. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Marks to the boards. A little discolouration to the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd light spot. Very Good. book.

9pp., 4to. In good condition, on nine leaves of lightly-aged paper. With three deletions in pencil. A stalwart of the Garrick Club, Forbes-Robertson was a friend of Dame Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde and Sir Edward Elgar, and organised Sir Henry Irving's funeral with Bram Stoker. There is no indication that this paper was ever published. It begins: 'I have come to the conclusion after a long life that those of a passionate nature whose strong emotions, by which their mind is swayed, by anger, fear, joy, grief, love, hatred, etc., often make the ideal friend so long as anger is kept within bounds. | As a boy I found it most difficult to control this passion. I would say, in my anger, cruel things to my brothers and sisters [Forbes-Robertson was one of eleven siblings] and those whom I loved most, and then go away and suffer in silence and self-contempt. How, I asked myself, could I cure these hateful brain storms that drove my frail bark upon the rocks? When my brothers and sisters and I were kiddies, we used to play a favourite game of Noughts and Crosses. In my childish mind the O represented good, the X all that was bad.' After explaining his belief in 'the exercise of will power', he claims that Gilbert 'lost the consoling influence of many loving friends during his life' as a result of his inability to do so: 'There are numberless examples of how such blessings were scattered to the winds by Gilbert's uncontrollable temper, over utterly childish trivialities. The notorious split between Gilbert, and Sullivan and Carte was, as my brother Johnston records in his enchanting book, due to the question of new carpets for the Savoy Theatre'. He next discusses the 'breach between the Kendalls and Gilbert', rude exchanges with a lady and police chief in New York, with a man 'whose father was a Jew', and with 'a neighbour, a partner of Crosse and Blackwell, the famous jam and pickle preservers'. He then recalls, '[i]n the days when typewriting machines were first invented, over forty years ago', seeing one 'in the library of Gilbert's handsome house in Collingham Garden. I asked hm if he found the instrument useful. "Most useful," he replied. "I sign all my autographs with it."' The document ends with a long anecdote regarding Sullivan's country house 'Grimsdyke', and a practical joke he played on his neighbour Arthur Bouchier, who came after a burglary to test the guns Sullivan had claimed to have placed around his grounds, and found '[o]n arriving halfway up the drive', that 'the air was rent with blazing blasts of roaring [last word deleted in pencil] guns from every side, even from the house. "Stop, stop!" shouted Bouchier, imagining himself riddled with bullets, "I'm a friend!" "A friend," cried Gilbert from his window, "what is a friend doing in my private grounds at this time of night?"' With this anecdote the paper comes to an end, and the lack of a passage summing-up the piece may suggest that it was not concluded, although the original lightly-rusted paperclip holding the leaves together and the manner of folding indicate that this is how it was preserved by Forbes-Robertson's brother Eric Forbes-Robertson, from whose papers it derives.

Zustand: Gebraucht / Used. Fine state d590e.