Cargill g knott (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Undated but statement within:- 'Table V., whjich as far as the compiler knows is now [1905] published for the first time .'. Printed grey covers which are creased and rather grubby; contents are sound. Pp 40; previous owner's name to inside front cover.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback edition, 1905, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - covers slightly rubbed. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and tables bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Fine. Pictorial Cloth with black lettering on spine and front, head, tail and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, otherwise very fine. Please contact me for further information or photographs if required.

Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Staplebound. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. About Very Good undated staplebound paperback, lightly bumped to extremities and lightly edge-worn. Some very light creasing to covers. Owner's name pencilled to front cover. Internally, price pencilled to inside front cover, pencilled note to margin on first page. Some light foxing to prelims. Staples rusted. Pages occasionally lightly foxed. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Four-Figured; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages.…

[Tokyo] 1888, TASJ. Extracted article,in recent grey wraps., very good, stapled in, pp 173-178, from Vol. 5, Part 1 1867- 1877, 15.5 x 22 cm., clean & solid, no marks. * * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * *.

With tables. Stapled Covers. 40pp. Covers worn. Corners bumped. Notes on margin. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 178 'amusements' being experiments, tricks, tests and challenges to keep young minds busy. Undated (The translator died in 1922) . Spine ends turned and board edges rubbed from use. Grey paper eps browned but no insc. Text block edges dusty and well handled. Contents generally clean and firm with plenty of helpful illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of 38 papers by this noted Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer; who was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science. Cover has light rub marks, minor wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 591 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with diagrams and fold-out graphs throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened and smudged. Beige cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn and bumped around the edges. Boards are lightly smudged. 1ST EDITION. VG/- - Size: 8 x 11. Book. …

Hardback. Condizione: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth, gilt. Printed compliments slip from Tait glued to front pastedown (not signed). Clean tight text in sound covers which are a bit marked. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1950g.…

Black Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No dj. First Edition. A bound collection of pamphlets from the cartography library of John Guy Bartholomew, with many bearing his signature and some with author presentation inscriptions. All neatly bound in period black cloth with gilt spine titling. Hugh Robert Mill, Syllabus of a Course of 12 Lectures on Physiography, 1888, idem. Nature and Poetry (both with author presentation inscription) J. M. D. Meiklejohn, on the Best and Worst Methods of Teaching Geography, 1869 (Bartholomew signature) W.G. Blackie, Commercial Education, an Address, Robert Felkin, Diseases of the Tropics and Climatology, 1886 (author presentation stamp) H. M. Cadell, Geology as a Branch of Techincal Education, 1887 (Author presentation inscription to Bartholomew) Cargill G. Knott, Ino Chukei, the Japanese Surveyer and Cartographer, 1888 (6pp) Alexander Buchan, the Rainfall of the British Islands, 1885 paper with colour plates. (Bartholomew signature) Charles Faure, Notice sur Arnold Guyot 1807 - 1884, Geneve, 1884, 72pp (author presentation inscription). A nice collection of association documents from the archive of Scotland's leading cartography dynasty. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Tan cloth. 4to. xxi, 1, 591pp. Light blue printed dust jacket. A collection of papers by the Scottish meteorologist and physicist who was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science. The book contains many interesting notes on Aitken's life and on the many scientific subjects he studied during his career. Knott presents 38 papers, which he calls "the cream of Dr. Aitken's own descriptions of his far-reaching investigations," from among the 98 papers that Aitken wrote on the various phenomena he observed and measured in the laboratory, as well as in the atmosphere and hydrosphere. A very good, bright copy with some light wear to the lower spine. This copy has the ownership signature of Yale professor and climate science pioneer, Barry Saltzman, but the text is otherwise very good and clean. The jacket is good with some fading and edgewear. It has some chipping along the top and bottom edge and lacks a small piece at the spine bottom. Scarce in the jacket. Foreign postage extra on this large and heavy book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. XXi pp + 591 pages inc index. Folding meteorological charts including "dust particles" recorded at the top of Ben Nevis 1891-2, etc and work done on clouds and their particles, etc. Oatmeal colour buckram, gilt titles on the spine, light fade spot of front board and some light rubbing at extremes. Still unopened along the top edges, not an ex-library copy, no inscriptions large quarto. *John Aitken, FRS, (1839 -1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a "koniscope".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 413 p. Includes illustrations. 0.0.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1923). First UK Edition. Publisher's ochre-coloured boards with gilt spine lettering. A near fine copy in like D/W. John Aitken: Meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope. Aitken was the author of a number of important pioneering discoveries "On Dust, Fogs and Clouds" (the title of an 1880 article he penned). 591 pages. Portrait frontispiece with folding diagrams and charts. Rare in D/W in this lovely condition.…