Whewell rev william (22 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: Fair. 1837. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Small splits to spine ends. Light marks to boards.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. ex-library copy with usual markings. cover shows minor wear, rubbing, fading, and bumped corners. pages lightly tanned and foxed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2nd. 190 page hardcover before publishers ad section. The Second Edition, including additional thoughts on the study of mathematics. Ex-lib copy, but with minimal markings. N0 exterior markings, no bookplate, no pockets - just a small library name stamp on title page. Blue period cloth exterior with subltle floral design and title on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean. Good, but fragile copy of the 1838 printing.…

1st edition softback with french flaps Very Good small octavo viii + 328pp., frontis., Some rubbing to red boards o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. pp. 431. Modern blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Sound copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good-. No Dust Jacket. 284 pp. Original brown cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ discoloration to edges. Paper title label on spine chipped at edges. Spine sunned. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Lacks front and rear blank endpapers. 4 pp. of ads at front. Light foxing throughout. …

Cloth Boards. 4th Edition. 4th edition, pp xvi, 381, 1 page works of Whewell, scattered foxing throughout, rebacked with maroon title pieces, orig blue cloth laid to covers, good. Bridgewater Treatise no. 3.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 21.5 cm x 14 cm xv + 381 pages some spotting to first and last few pages.Contents tight no inscriptions, bound in later circa 1900 half green calf cloth sides.Spine in 6 compartments with ornate gilt tooling 2 contrasting labels, binding clean and tight no splits or stains. Bridgewater Treatises, no 3 .…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. A smart early edition of this interesting philosophical work in a contemporary full-calf binding. Early edition. Smartly bound in full contemporary calf. Featuring the preface by the Reverend William Whewell, a former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and influential polymath. An intriguing study of the development of ethical philosophy throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Written by James Mackintosh, a Scottish jurist and Whig politician, whose interests extended to the fields of medicine, history and philosophy. Smartly bound in full contemporary calf. With the bookplate of Edward Festi Kelly to the front paste down. Externally, smart with reasonable shelf wear, leading to light loss of leather and marking, especially to the extremities and rear board. Internally, firmly bound. More significant spotting to the first and last few pages, otherwise generally bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good. None (illustratore). book.…

1st edition full leather Very Good octavo xxxvi + 437, xii + 624, 534pp., Boards rather worn, volume 3 spine stripped o/w internally very good indeed with occasional spotting. Would bind very nicely. Scarce first edition of an important work.

First edition. 3 volumes. Rebound in-house by KTB in dark green J.Hewit acid free calf backed green and new acid free marbled boards with gilt leather spine labels and acid free endpapers. Demy 8vo. pp. xxxvi, 437, [2] errata and printer; xi, 534, [2] Errata and printer; xii, 624. Very Good. Victorian period standard and slant, followed three years later with the Philosophy of. Whewell was President of Geological Society 1837-9, an Anglican Theologian and Minister, and prolific writer in many disciplines [BO 6532]. (Post for this set quoted for destination). [We restore and rebind books and sets]. …

Full-Leather. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, full polished calf, spine in 6 compartments each spine with two gilt-lettered dark brown leather labels, marbled endpapers and matching marbled page edges, clean bright and tight, spines a bit rubbed still FINE condition, occasional slight age spotting.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. xx + 76 pp. Minor damp staining affecting lower margin of last few leaves. Untrimmed. Original printed wrappers, a little soiled.

Disbound, 19pp., inc. title, some faint foxing, good condition. Note on the background: But Flamsteed was furious when Sir Isaac Newton, who regularly used his data for his own studies, grew tired of Flamsteed's insistence on double-checking every detail before allowing his data to be published and rushed out an error-strewn version of the 'Historia Colestis Britannica' in 1712.| Feeling deeply betrayed by Newton and Edmund Halley who had edited the volume, Flamsteed spent a small fortune buying up as many copies as he could before publicly burning them at the Royal Observatory.| Newton responded by removing all references to Flamsteed from his 'Principia Mathematica' despite the astronomer's huge contribution to the volume." [BBC].…

1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. 422 to 457pp ( 36 pages ). Begins top of page & finishes middle of page. Binders marks along inside edge where extracted from bound volume ( could be trimmed ). Clean & tight. VG.

1st edition. Large 8vo. 265 - 296pp. Article begins top of page & finishes bottom of page. Slight browning around page edges else very clean & tight & unfoxed ready for binding in card covers. VG.

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 381, [1]. lacking half-title. contemporary half calf (rubbed, library stamp on title). Second Edition. One of a series of eight works on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation, known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'. They were written at the request of the trustees of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and final Earl of Bridgewater [1756-1829], in accordance with the provisions of his will.…

First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Twentieth century tan quarter sheep over russet cloth boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spines, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, blind tooled device to the others. Very good. Whewell was a prolific writer and something of a scientific polymath, concerning himself with the development and understanding of the wider reaches of the subject rather than specialising in specific branches. Indeed, it was said that Charles Lyell initially regretted that his contemporary didn't concentrate his great intellect on particular sciences, but subsequently came to the opinion that "by being a universalist rather than a specialist he was assisting the progress of science". (ODNB).…