And dana james d (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Fine in a Good Plus DJ, Clean and unmarked. Minor tears to DJ, now protected with an archival jacket. Book.

Half Leather - Hardbound. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 462 pages, plus plates, indexed. Covers are very worn, and leather over spine appears exposed to heat and to have darkened and cracked. Covers are loosened, though remain attached. End leaves darkened. Moisture marks affecting upper half of much of the content. Text and plates remain clear, and there is no sticking or paper loose. Text block remains tight.…

gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Gut. 464 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); leichte altersbedingte Anbräunung des Papiers; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Original wraps. Some chipping to corners, mild creasing. Mild scattered foxing. Pp. [4], 153-312.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Half leather with marbled boards, marbled eps and edges. Bookplate of the War Department LIbrary. 496, [12]pp. Rubbing/edgewear to boards. With four plates. Pages lightly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 3d Edition Revised and Corrected (1880). Hardcover (Black embossed Leather, Gilt title on the spine, no dj). Hint of wear to the ends of the spine and to the corners. Signature and address inside front cover otherwise Clean Unmarked throughout. Strong tight binding, perfect hinges. VG+. 9.5"x6.25"x1.1". be47787.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. 8vo, 43pp. Disbound. Paper a little age browned. Authorial attributions derive from the AAS catalogue entry on-line (though its pagination differs from the present copy). PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGE: "A[biel] Holmes from Rev.Dr. D. Dana 1816." AMERICAN IMPRINTS 37331 (locating only the AAS copy), the present copy being, perhaps, only the second known. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Half leather with marbled boards, marbled eps and edges. Bookplate and inkstamps of the War Department Library; War Department binding. With 21 plates in good order. Rear free endpage creased.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 502 pages.

Condizione: Good. - Octavo, 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, light grey printed wraps. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. There is dampstaining along the front edge of the front cover and bottom inner corners of both covers. viii & 456 pages, illustrated with 2 folding charts.Both are charts of the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache, superintendent", the first being "Sketches Nos. 1 to 5 / Showing the set of currents in Sandy Hook Bay". The other is a folding chart depicting the "Curves Illustrating the Descent of the Sounding Weight and Line in Deep Sea Soundings, 1858". There is dampstaining to the front edge of the first 74 pages and the top corner of several other pages. Good. Included is an article "On an Earthquake in Western New York" by C.E. West [pages 177 through 182]; an article "On Chinese Poisons" by D.J. Macgowan, M.D.; "Observations upon the Practicability of reaching the North Pole - with a map" by Isaac L. Hayes, M.D. [no map was published] [pages 305 through 323]; an article on "The Atlantic Cable" [pages 285 through 288]; an article on "Photography - Sensitiveness of Photographic Reagents" [page 397]; W.P. Towbridge "On Deep Sea Explorations" [pages 386-391; G.C. Swallow of Missouri on "The Rocks of Kansas" [pages 182 through 186]; "Sixth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy" by the author [pages 345 through 364]; D.F. Weinland on the "Zoology of Hayti" (i.e. Haiti) [pages 210 through 214]; and Charles Lyell "On the Formation of Volcanic Cones" [pages 214 through 219].…

Condizione: Good. - Octavo, 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, light grey printed wraps. Apparently bound by the publisher in the incorrect wrappers, with corrections penned in ink by an early owner to match the information on the title page. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. and the head & tail of the spine are chipped with a small piece out from the head of the spine. viii & 456 deckle-edged pages, illustrated with 3 folding charts from the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache, superintendent". The charts depict: "Approximate Cotidal Lines / Sailing Lines and Lines of Equal Hieght of Tides / of the Atlantic Coast of the United States From Investigations in the Coast Survey. 1857", "Diagrams of Winds at San Diego and San Francisco California and Astoria Oregon, from Observations by the U.S. Coast Survey 1857", and "Measurement of Epping Base Maine 1857". Several page corners are slightly creased. Very good. Included is an article by John LeConte, M.D. "On the Influence of Musical Sounds on the Flame of a Jet of Coal-Gas" [pages 62 through 67]; R.W. Haskins, A.M. on "The Open North Polar Sea" [pages 84 through 91]; J.D. Dana's "Agassiz's Contributions to the Natural History of the United States" [pages 202 through 216 and 321 through 341]; W.P. Blake on "The Chalchihuitl of the ancient Mexicans: its locality and association, and its identity with Turquois" [pages 227 through 232]; H. James Clark's "Recapitulation of the 'Embryology of the Turtle' as given in Professor Agassiz's 'Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America" [pages 342 through 357]; I.I. Hayes on "The Passage to the North Pole" [pages 384 through 392]; and the "Fifth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy; by the Author".…