rev john fleming (4 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condizione: Very good. - Small quarto [9 inches high by approximately 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The front cover is lightly foxed with a few small stains. There is some discoloration & minor soiling to the rear cover with a crease to its top corner. 63 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including facsimiles. Very good. "The University of Waterloo.has one of the largest and best engineering schools in Canada.An educational foundation was established in 1977 to promote cooperative education and to develop new modes of interaction between industry and universities to further improve engineering education.". The foundation was named after Sandford Fleming, described in Legget's lecture as "a statesman engineer" and "truly one of the real builders of Canada". For a few years Fleming was simultaneously the Chief Engineer of the Intercolonial Railway from Halifax to Montreal, the Newfoundland Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 171 pages. 11.18x8.74x0.59 inches. In Stock.

1st. Edn. pp. civ, 102. plus 10pp. publisher's catalogue; plus 8pp. Contents list of issues to date of the quarterly "North British Review." 6 text figures in line. The prelims are essentially concerned with the Rev. Duns' memoir of Fleming who was Professor of Natural Science at New College, Edinburgh. In the original blind stamped cloth which is dampstained. The backstrip is detached. This copy lacks the frontis. The contents show marginal dampstaining. There is a 7cm. tear extending at right angles to the fore-edge on 8 leaves of the prelims. A good working copy of this scarce work.