Dr oscar parkes (12 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1st. Red card stock illustrated boards with gilt lettering and graphics. FIRST EDITION. Numerous coloured and other plates with tissue on the colour plates. Illustrated selections from the authors listed. The boards have a three inch tear at the top of the spine and an one inch tear at the base of the spine. Original book dealer's stamp on the first page. 84 pages.…

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Bien. 1ª Edición. British battleships. "Warrior 1860" to "Vanguard 1950". A History of Design, Construction and Armament. With a Foreword by Admiral of The Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma Autor: Dr. Oscar Parkes O.B.E., A.I.N.A. Seeley Service & Co., 1956, London. Whit 450 photographs & plans. Gran formato, tapa dura con sobrecubiertas ilustradas fatigadas. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. This large format hardbound book is in good condition. It has its original dustjacket which is fully intact although showing some shelf wear to the edges and some surface marks and scratches. The blue covered boards are in good condition and the stitched binding is very sound. The pages are crisp and clean and the book is packed with black and white illustrations and photography.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Dust jacket is wrapped. Quarto. 701 pages. Small bit of discoloration at the page edge bottom corner.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Yes, issued mere days after the stock market crash of October, 1929 (actually, it may have been on newsstands on THE DAY of the Crash), this is the issue of "Scientific American" bearing the infamous, full-color "Ancient Prejudice Has Been Removed" ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes to the back cover. Just as "Hoarding gold with the fanatical zeal of the miser has vanished" (illustration shows the paranoid miser counting his stacks of gold coins by candlelight, foolishly believing they will somehow protect his wealth more effectively than a pile of stock certificates or -- heaven forbid -- a stack of Federal Reserve Notes), now that "American intelligence sponsors thousands of banking institutions to which the individual safely entrusts his wealth" (wealthy couple shown chatting with bank "Security" officer -- cue Stan depositing his grandma's $100 check in the South Park Bank), so have Lucky Strikes "destroyed that ancient prejudice against cigarette smoking by men and women" by toasting their tobacco, thus removing "harmful corrosive acids . . . No Throat Irritation -- No Cough," the reader is cheerfully assured. Economists may still debate whether bank failures caused the Great Depression, or the Great Depression caused bank failures, but what's undisputed is that by 1933, 11,000 of the nation's 25,000 "safe and secure" banks had disappeared. The run on America's banks began immediately following the stock market crash of Oct. 29, 1929. Overnight, hundreds of thousands of customers began to withdraw their deposits. But many weren't quick enough. In 1933 alone, Americans who had money deposited in banks lost approximately $140 billion. Good thing grandpa was too smart to put his money in gold coins in the safe! ($20 an ounce in 1929, now pushing $5,000 an ounce, if you can find them.) Also in this issue, "Ford's friend Edison," by F.D. McHugh; Paul Heyl, Ph.D., on evidence that speeds faster than that of light may be impossible; "Synthetic Sweet Smells," by Donald A. Laird, "Japan's New Navy," by Dr. Oscar Parkes, and "An Outlawed Industry Comes Back" (survival and return of the Anheuser-Busch brewery of St. Louis), by A.A. Hopkins. Interestingly, the magazine also features a brief report on a telephone study conducted by Dr. Wingate M. Johnson of North Carolina, reporting that although 70 percent of heart attack victims were tobacco smokers and only 30 percent were non-smokers, he could still conclude smoking has no permanent effect on the blood pressure and bears no definite relationship to angina pectoris, that "The chief bad effects produced by tobacco smoking . . . are irritations of the lining of the throat." (In his 1963 obituary, the New York Times noted Dr. Johnson, who'd been editor of the North Carolina Medical Journal since 1940, also "Warned Against Exercise." Hey, at least he died too soon to inject all his patients with Pfizer "clot shots." Ain't "science" grand?) This 1929 magazine now reduced from $5,000.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. 4°, XV, 701 Seiten mit sehr zahlreichen Abbildungen, Originalleinen mit farbig illustr. Originalumschlag dieser mit ganz leichten Gebrauchsspuren sonst sehr guter Zustand - 1970. AB5606 ISBN: 085422002X Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2800.

revised edition dust jacket Nice Copy Quarto xv + 701pp., b/w plates, diags., plans, appends., index, Re-issue of Parke's classic text. Very nice copy of the revised edition.

New & Rev. ed dust jacket Very Nice Copy Quarto 701pp., b/w plates, diags., plans, appends., index, A History of Design, Construction & Armament. Very nice copy a the classic text.

New & Rev. ed worn dust jacket Nice Copy Quarto 701pp., b/w plates, diags., plans, appends., index, A History of Design, Construction & Armament. Dust jacket rather tatty o/w nice copy.

Leinen, gebunden; blauer Einband, Rückengoldprägung, mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag / Anz. Seiten: 701 / 23 x 29 cm / mit 450 Schwarzweissaufnahmen und Textillustrationen / Zustand: gut, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Vorsätze mit Spuren von Klebeband, Schutzumschlag berieben und leicht beschädigt, mit Rückständen von Klebeband, Besitzerstempel auf Innendeckel Sprache: en.…

New & Rev. ed dust jacket Fine Quarto 701pp., b/w pls., diags., plans, appends., index, A History of Design, Construction & Armament.

NB: A detailed 12 page description of this archive is available upon request. original archive contained in seventy-three large albums and binders presented in both typescript and manuscript form, including filed correspondence from a number of colleagues: J.J. Colledge, Lt Cdr P. Kemp, G.A. Osbon, J. Lenton, Cdr R.H. Mandley, D. Trimmingham, W.P. Trotter, and other specialists. A 12 page description is available on request. Although Parkes reputation is based on his work British Battleships he assembled a great deal of reference material outside the period 1860-1950. Indeed, it would appear that he was contemplating the publication of a List of Ships of the Royal Navy 1820-1860, thus pre-dating the above work. Whilst the albums provide coverage of the ships of the Royal Navy for the period 1500-1958, they effectively concentrate on the years 1800-1945. Details of vessels are given usually by class or type, with name, tonnage, horse power, speed, length, beam, draught, hull, armament, etc. In addition, where required there is coverage of radar, searchlights, machinery and boilers, speed, fuel and radius, loss or disposal, general comments, along with very detailed notes. Finally, there are a number of albums created by colleagues of Dr Parkes, including an unpublished history of HMS Vanguard by W.P. Trotter (2 vols), manuscript notes by Guy Hall, and a series of unpublished studies by Cdr R.H. Mandley. Dr Parkes was a worthy successor to Fred Jane and his British Battleships still stands the test of time and is a monument to his skill as an historian and writer. AJS: Dr Oscar Parkes MD. (1885-1958), medical practitioner, marine artist, pianist, yachtsman, photograph collector, and author. During the First World War he served in the Royal Navy as a temporary surgeon lieutenant and in 1918 was attached to the Naval Intelligence Division in the Admiralty, serving under Ad Sir Reginald Hall, as a naval artist and director of the photographic section of the Imperial War Museum. From his boyhood he had been fascinated by warships, particularly their design and appearance, and over time amassed a vast knowledge of the warships of all nations. He first met Fred Jane, the editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, in 1900 at the age of 15 and kept up regular contact with him, exchanging technical information and drawings. Fred Jane died in 1916 and in 1918 Parkes was invited to become joint editor with M. Prendergast of Jane's Fighting Ships (1919-21), then sole editor (1922-23), joint editor again with F. McMurtrie (1924-29), and finally sole editor (1930-34). Parkes brought all his great energy and enthusiasm to the editing and production of Jane's Fighting Ships. Indeed, in the large edition of 1919 he introduced the publishers to page-long blocks illustrating the Renown and the Furious, the forerunners of many other fine large pictures. In 1957 he published British Battleships 1860-1950 "Warrior" 1860 to "Vanguard" 1950 A History of Design, Construction and Armament, a magnificently detailed and authoritative account of every British battleship from the Warrior of 1860 to the Vanguard of 100 years later. He also wrote and illustrated many articles on a variety of naval subjects. NB: This archive requires careful packing, please ask for a quotation for shipping to your address. …