Origin Force, First Edition (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 212 Pages Professionally Restored By Hand, Original Spine Laid Down On New Cloth, New End Papers.

1st edition. Publisher's file copy. Poor paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 112, [8] pp. ; 18 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. 8 p. advertisements at end. Subject; English language Writing, Orthography and spelling. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Publisher's file copy. Poor paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 112, [8] pp. ; 18 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. 8 p. advertisements at end. Subject; English language Writing, Orthography and spelling. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Black and white illustrations, advertisements at rear. Bound in gilt-titled red cloth. Ex-library with usual markings, no pocket. Front hinge cracked, first gathering partially detached. 115, xvii.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1850. FIRST Edition. Respined in black leather with gilt titles to a red label, gilt bands, now tightly bound, with the original green cloth blind stamped boards, gilt titles to the front board, new endpapers. 9 lithograph plates, 19 maps and plans of irrigation systems, large folding coloured map, and 3 wood engravings in the text. Boards marked, scratched and variably faded and damp stained, damp staining to plates (see photos), repaired to the large folding plans. EX Government LIBRARY stamp to page 1 only. Contents collated and complete. Scarce first and only edition of this important account of the Ajmer-Merwara region of south-western Rajasthan. "according to the English Catalogue, the work was privately printed, and Smith, Elder may therefore only have published it on Dixon's behalf" (Abbey, 475). Pagination: viii, 241pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates, ex government library stamp. Approximately 11 œ inches (29.5cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - very good condition - new spine, gilt titles to red label, gilt bands. Joints - good condition - repaired. Corners - good condition - stained, bumped and worn. Boards - good condition - original blind stamped decoration, damp stained, marked, and variably faded. Page edges - good condition - untrimmed, tanned. Binding - good condition - attractive, repaired, rubbed, marked and worn. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - good condition - repaired. Paste downs - good condition - new paper. End papers - good condition - new paper, subsequently very tanned. Title - good condition - tanned, torn with loss to the top edge. Pages - good condition - tanned with some damp staining particularly to the plates, the large plans misfolded and repaired. See photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [iv], 90 pp. Original printed wrappers, a little browned at edges, worn on spine. Ex library copy with ink stamp to title-page, and manuscript note to top of front wrapper. First edition. Spencer's 'First Principles' was published in 1862, in which he argued that all phenomena could be explained in terms of a lengthy process of evolution in things. This 'principle of continuity' was that homogeneous organisms are unstable, that organisms develop from simple to more complex and heterogeneous forms, and that such evolution constituted a norm of progress. This account of evolution provided a complete and 'predetermined' structure for the kind of variation noted by Darwin--and Darwin's respect for Spencer was significant.

Scarce first and only edition of this important account of the Ajmer-Merwara region of south-western Rajasthan and the extensive irrigation system established there. Abbey notes that "according to the English Catalogue, the work was privately printed, and Smith, Elder may therefore only have published it on Dixon's behalf"; contemporary booksellers' catalogues note that it was privately printed for the East India Company. The author (d. 1857) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Bengal Artillery and as superintendent of Ajmer-Merwara (part of North-Western Provinces) oversaw the creation of the irrigation system outlined in this book, which is illustrated with a series of attractive tinted lithograph views, largely the work of William Gauci, after lieutenants F. J. Burgess and C. Herbert; Gauci, of Maltese extraction, came from a family of distinguished lithographers working in London. The map is by another Bengal Artillery officer, Lieutenant D. C. Vanrenen. The region was described in the Rajputana Gazeteer (1879), with unsurprising hauteur, as "a difficult, hilly tract, inhabited by an independent and plundering race, who cared not for agriculture, and who supplied their wants at the expense of the surrounding territories". The beginnings of tighter British rule in the region began in 1819, when a force was despatched to deal with depredations by elements of local people, the Mairs or Mers; villages were razed to the ground and a series of strong police-posts established. "In November 1820 a general insurrection broke out. The police-posts were cut off, and the men composing them killed. The thorough subjugation of the country was then determined on" (ibid.); a policy executed with some thoroughness. But the situation remained unstable and eventually a treaty was signed (May 1823) with the rana of Udaipur, by which the British would police and administer the region for ten years - at the rana's expense (subsequently, a similar, ongoing, arrangement was made with the darbar of Jodhpur). As Krishna G. Karmakar writes, "The British built major irrigation systems in India to stave off periodic starvation and to ensure the movement of export commodities Famines were reduced but the basic structure of the India rural economy had been irreversibly broken". Abbey 475. Quarto. 9 tinted lithograph plates (of which 8 are views), 19 detailed maps and plans of irrigation systems, large folding coloured map of the region printed on linen, 3 wood engravings in the text. Original green cloth neatly rebacked with green morocco, ornamental blind stamping on sides, gilt lettered on the front cover, yellow coated endpapers. Contemporary ownership on front pastedown (dated 1851). Covers patchily faded, some wear to corners, light marginal dampstaining to plates (more noticeable on plate 13), nevertheless a clean, tall copy.

(London: Alexander Strahan and Company, 1868). 8vo. Without wrappers (as issued). Offprint, seperatly paginated, from "Fortnightly Review 1", Pp. 435-42. Author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: "Prof Tyndall / With the author's / kind Compliments". Soiling to front wrappers and nicks throughout, not affecting text. Internally clean. Pp. 8. First edition, offprint, with the author's presentation inscription to Professor John Tyndall - the father of the Greenhouse Effect, heat radiation and global climate research - of this important paper, in which Herschel promotes the role of the devine in the natural order. Herschel, now famous for originating the use of the Julian day system in astronomy, naming seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus, his investigation in colour blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays, did much to promote the public understanding of science . The present paper constitutes one of his most widely read and popular works. "During his life John was immensely celebrated, his name epitomizing science to the public, much as that of Einstein did in the next century." (DSB)Though intended for a popular audience "On the Origin of Force" is one of the most important sources for understanding Herschel's general approach to science. A contemporary review of the paper states: "The article is well worth reading for those who wish to realise the enormous benefit which has been rendered to science by banishing the indefinite uee of the word force and by introducing the term energy, restricting the use of force to the meaning attached to it by Newton. Sir John Herschel still speaks of the "conservation of force" (as did likewise Helmholtz, who, however, very early introduces the term Arheitskraft, power to do work, thus removing all ambiguity).Herschel and Tyndall corresponded throughout their mature lives and they shared an overall view on God's place in science. "In the only case in which we are admitted into any personal knowledge of the origin of force, we find it connected (possibly by intermediate links untraceable by our faculties, but yet indubitably connected) with volition, and by inevitable consequence with motive, with intellect, and with all the attributes of mind in which-and not in the possession of arms, legs, brains, and viscera-personality consists." (Herschel, rrom the present paper). Tyndall agreed in stating that: "An inscrutable power of which we know no more than job did, when he said, 'Can man by searching find this power out?'. (Tyndall's "Belfast Address").