Compton a W H (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NO MARKING.

Ed. North-Holland, Amsterdam - 1987, in-8, broché, 211 pages Bon état, table des matières sur la photo - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.…

No binding. Condition: Fair. No Description.

British soldier (1854-1933) decorated for service in the Zulu War. One page, 12mo. Creased, discoloured and with a few pin holes. Docketed and bearing the R.S.A. stamp. 'Sir Bartle Frere presents his compliments & begs to enclose an envelope wh has just reached him fm. P. Office | 27. 7. 19 | The Secy | R. Society of Arts'.…

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 17 x 28 cms. A hospitality building with continental flair and urban frontage, enhancing Soho' cosmopolitan character. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; PRINTS : Buildings & Places; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 220 pages with 8 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, full page and smaller and head & tail piece, original cloth boards with design taken from a 15th century ornament, part of the front wrapper tipped in to FFEP, decorative cloth clean and a little rubbing to edges of the spine, quarto. 1925. *Note this copy has the short story by G. K. Chesterton "The Coloured Lands" the title was used for a collection of his tales inc this on in 1938 after his death 1st printing here, Also Milne's "The Princess Who Would Not Laugh" 1st printing here also. The story was reprinted in 1966. Harry Rountree, A. H. Watson, Hugh Chesterman, Maxwell Armfield, etc. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: New.

This work provides the first comprehensive biography of the three Redouté brothers, Antoine-Ferdinand, Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph. Originating from humble origins in the Ardennes, they all took root in Paris where Antoine-Ferdinand became a decorative painter. By contrast Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph embarked as botanical illustrators on a scientific and aesthetic career including numerous contributions to the prestigious royal paintings on vellum. The central figure of this work is Pierre-Joseph, whose accurate illustrations document science during the late phase of the Enlightenment, throughout the turbulences of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and into the Restoration. Thus, Pierre-Joseph provided works for Empress Josephine and Queen Maria Amalia. An indefatigable worker, he produced an enormous number of botanical illustrations, many of a very high calibre. A large number of which were reproduced as engravings for a long list of publications which multiplied by many times the effect of his work. His association with the new Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, but also notably with C.-L. L'Héritier and the Geneva botanist A.?P. de Candolle, ensured successive commissions. Henri-Joseph joined the scientific team that accompanied Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, documenting plants, animals and artifacts. Although his output was more geared towards paintings of animals, he was frequently asked to contribute botanical works for Pierre-Joseph. In essence the focus of this book is not on the written record but on the pictorial. Furthermore it offers a panorama of the travellers, collectors, scientists, gardeners and illustrators in one of the great centres of the time Paris. Paris. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 822 pp., 176 figs, br. gr. 8 [16.5 x 24.0 cm].…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The first American edition of the third Joy Street annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, and many others, in the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First American edition, published in 1925, following the British first edition issued by Basil Blackwell earlier the same year. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Vera Hibbert, Doris Palthorpe, A. H. Watson, Hugh Chesterman, Harry Rountree, W. G. Raffe and others. Collated, complete. Complete with the scarce original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Alec Buckels. The third volume in the Joy Street series, an annual anthology of prose and verse for children, bringing together stories, poems and imaginative pieces by a distinguished group of contemporary writers In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spine with slight rubbing to extremities resulting in minor fading to the pattern. Very slight discolouration to perimeters of boards with one or two very slight marks. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd chip, closed tear, and crease, more so to spine ends, with slight loss. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to wraps. Slight colour offsetting to inside wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning to fore edge. Near Fine. Vera Hibbert; Doris Palthorpe; A. H. Watson; Hugh Chesterman; Harry Rountree; W. G. Raffe; Et al. (illustrator). book.…

RARE publication of papers and discussions that took place at the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons in October 1927, where the world`s most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines. This conference was also the culmination of the struggle between Einstein and the scientific realists, who wanted strict rules of scientific method as laid out by Charles Peirce and Karl Popper, versus Bohr and the instrumentalists, who wanted looser rules based on outcomes; the instrumentalists won, instrumentalism having been seen as the norm ever since. Contains H.A.Lorentz`s portrait as frontispiece. [CONTENTS]: H.-A.Lorentz - Notice nécrologique; Cinquieme Conseil de Physique / W.-L.Bragg - L`intensit de reflexion des rayons X / Arthur H.Compton - Discordances entre l`experience et la theorie electro-magnetique du rayonnement / de Broglie - La nouvelle dynamique des quanta / Max Born et Werner Heisenberg - La mecanique des quanta / Erwin Schrödinger - La mecanique des ondes / Niels Bohr - Le postulat des quanta et le nouveau development de l`automatisme. 255x165mm. VIII+289 pages [+7]. Softcover. Cover detached, yellowing, wrinkled and tattered. Front cover right bottom and left upper corners, rear cover bottom edges and right upper corner, and spine partly missing. Small sticker on rear cover left bottom corner. Spine worn and stained. Binding slightly loose. Several last pages coming loose from binding. Pages upper corner wrinkled. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare book, one of the most significant historical documents of modern science, is otherwise in good condition. The book is in : French. …