Completed Frank Oldham (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hard Cover in Very Good condition. Clean, Strong binding and unmarked pages. No underlining or notes in the margins. Minor scuffing of the covers . Dust Jacket FAIR Good condition with numerous rips tears, staining. CAREFULLY PACKED in a sturdy BOX. All USA orders ship with tracking number and email confirmation. Because of the expensive cost of international shipping, INTERNATIONAL buyers MUST contact me first to arrange a shipping quote to your country.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. ---------------Blue cloth covers, 8 1/2" tall. 355 pages with illustrations. . . . FINE CONDITION, dust jacket chipped with little edgepiece of dust jacket missing ( 1/2" square).

1st. This biography provides a detailed account of the life and work of Thomas Young (1773â"1829), one of the most versatile scientific minds of the early 19th century. Young is celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to optics (establishing the wave theory of light), physics, linguistics (deciphering the Rosetta Stone), and medicine. The book explores his early education, medical studies, work as a physician, professorship at the Royal Institution, and his many diverse scientific achievements. The volume includes illustrations, diagrams, and photographs of Youngâs instruments, offering valuable historical context for his experiments. A memoir of Alexander Wood by Charles E. Raven is also included, making this both a biography of Young and a reflection on the historian who dedicated decades to studying him. This biography remains a key resource for historians of science, scholars of physics and optics, and collectors of works on natural philosophy. . Binding: Hardcover, strong and intact. Yellow cloth boards with blue spine label in good condition. Dust Jacket: Present, showing edge wear, age toning, and light soiling (see photos). Some foxing visible inside jacket. Pages: Clean and legible throughout, though some foxing/spotting on endpapers and edges (common in books of this age). Illustrations remain sharp and clear. Overall: Good to Very Good condition for age, with some cosmetic flaws due to age. Binding: Hardcover with original dust jacket (yellow cloth spine, blue title label).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Tight unmarked book in clean orange cloth; in rubbed dust jacket with edgewear and 2 cm chip from lower rear edge. ; 353 pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1954. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Ex-libris with usual labels, text not affected. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1954. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Ex-libris with usual labels, text not affected. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 355 pages, frontispiece portrait plate, 3 black and white plates, illustrations in text, book in very good condition (edges of book spotted, top edge also slightly dust marked, text pages and illustrations in fine, clean condition) with good dust-wrapper (top corner of front flap clipped, rear panel dust marked, corners and edges creased with associated short tears).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth cover, gilt sp. lettering, clean and unworn bar thin fading strip bottom sp. f/piece + 353, 24 text ills, 4 ills on 3 plates ex-pagination; colourless round impressed exlib stamp of Derek Gair Gibson to fr. end-paper, (he being an eminent British cardiology, 1935-2021), otherwise no obvuous faults. Unclipped jacket, seriously nicked and chipped to top edge, worst nicks now internally closed but 1st sp. title word visibly split, bottom edge has some small nicks and chips also, traces of surface dustiness to back, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Young contributed to a wide variety of fields including medicine, the theory of light, decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics, navigation and contributing numerous important entries to the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1817-25, including one on tides. 15 cm x 22 cm.