Sigmund Eisner (38 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). 189 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Minor stains to board edges. Pages are clean of stains. No markings on text pages or major defects.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. …

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Tight binding. Unmarked text pages. Yellow boards scuffed, soiled, stained. No DJ. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, xvi, 184pp. First edition, first printing (?). An AS NEW copy: sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap with the a promotional card laid under. As presentable as it comes.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No marks in text. No inscriptions etc. Not a library book. Ships today in a cardboard enclosure. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spot since 1991. shelf LL/red.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xii 248pp hardback, red cloth silver-lettered, private library bookplate, ownership signature (The Chaucer library).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN 0810100126. Hardback. No dustjacket. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and slight dustsoiling to edges and corners of covers. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Gr.-8vo. 148 S. Originaler Verlagsleinen. (St.a.T., Schnitt abgestrichen). In englischer Sprache.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page. Octavo bound in green cloth. Condition: minor spotting to binding; front & rear covers are slightly bowed outward; else very good. 148 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Dust jacket is faintly marked from shelving and handling, spine sunned, very small creases and tears to front upper panel though no loss, unprice clipped; boards are clean, some small black marks on spine, silver titling bright, corners bumped; binding is tight; pages are unmarked, review slip laid in. Chaucer Library edition.; 6.3 x 1 x 9.5 inches; 248 pages. …

XII, 248 Seiten, Mit Abbildungen und Tabellen; Übersetzung: Gary Mac Eoin und Sigmund Eisner; Kopffarbschnitt; --- gutes Exemplar Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 730 Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe / Leinen.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0820304492. …

hardcover. Condition: very good. 148pp., 8vo, green cloth; some minor pencil underlining and margin notes, corners bumped. Wexford: John English & Co., 1957. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed twice by the author: once on endpage with brief inscription, and then again on the title page. Clean copy in sturdy bright covers. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England's greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written.Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner's extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer's treatise.Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available. Demonstrates that Chaucer structured both Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping devic. Chaucer's fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Canterbury Tales. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. xxiv, 358 p., Ill. Eine der ersten Seiten ist lose, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. One of the first pages is loose, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- A Brief Account of This Edition -- Abbreviations and Sigils -- Introduction -- The Planispheric Astrolabe -- Construction -- History -- The Painswick Astrolabe -- Critical Commentary -- Authorship of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Little Lewis -- Date of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- The Equatorie of the Planetis -- Sources of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Survey of Commentary -- The Treatise as Writing -- Chaucer the Pedagogue -- Chaucer and Astrology -- Textual Commentary -- The Choice of a Base Manuscript -- The Authenticity of the Supplementary Conclusions and the -- Structure of A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- The Relationship of the Manuscripts -- Descriptions of the Manuscripts -- Descriptions of the Printed Editions -- The Present Edition -- A Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Bibliographical Index -- General Index. ISBN 9780806134130 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 967.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 358 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.