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Staples slightly rusted. Slight wear and slight soiling to spine, cover and corners.; With original red wrappers. With b/w + 1 colour plates and advertisements.; 16.5x24.5x0.5 cm; 78, xx pages.

Staples slightly rusted. Slight wear and slight soiling to spine, cover and corners.; With original red wrappers. With b/w + 1 colour plates and advertisements.; 16.5x24.5x0.5 cm; 78, xx pages.

8vo 8"-9" tall; pp 501-517 pages.

1969. Swift Ltd. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE First edition. Green boards, black titles & a yellow spine. Text is clear & bright. Ex library. Light marks on some pages but they do not affect the text. Spine cracked. Some of the carboard on the back board is torn. Boards are discoloured. Externally worn. 13x8.

1969. Swift Ltd. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE First edition. Green boards, black titles & a yellow spine. Text is clear & bright. Ex library. Light marks on some pages but they do not affect the text. Spine cracked. Some of the carboard on the back board is torn. Boards are discoloured. Externally worn. 13x8.

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8vo 8"-9" tall; pp 501-517 pages.

All orders ship by next business day! This is a used paperback book with wear due to handling. Pages have no markings. For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. We are a small company and very thankful for your business!

2 vols. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt (rubbed & sunned, a little fraying to sppines, marks and stains to cloth and outer leaves, endpapers a little offset, leaf edge spotting, inscription in both volumes); pp. xviii, 498 (last colophon), 8 (pubs. cat. ), with 4 illustrations & a folding map; x, 432 (last blank), with 4 illustrations + a folding map. A good set. Ex-libris Sydney climber Warwick Williams, with his ownership signature and label to both volumes.

2 vols. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt (rubbed & sunned, a little fraying to sppines, marks and stains to cloth and outer leaves, endpapers a little offset, leaf edge spotting, inscription in both volumes); pp. xviii, 498 (last colophon), 8 (pubs. cat. ), with 4 illustrations & a folding map; x, 432 (last blank), with 4 illustrations + a folding map. A good set. Ex-libris Sydney climber Warwick Williams, with his ownership signature and label to both volumes.

History of the Russian-Japanese War, Editors-Publishers M.E. Barkhatov and V.V. Funke. In 6 Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: T-vo R. Golika and A. Wilborg, 1907-1909. Vol. 5: 6, 1033-1282 p. /Istoriya Russko-Yaponskoy voyny redaktory-izdateli M.E. Barkhatov i V.V. Funke. V 6 t. T. 5. SPb. : T-vo R. Golike i A. Vil'borg, 1907-1909. T. 5: 6, 1033-1282 s. Short description: The book was not intended to be scientific, but relied on a fairly wide range of sources, whether published, in manuscripts or orally: official documents, the memories of the participants, both Russian military and European officers and journalists, who followed the war. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-319c14150a4a48e8.

First Edition. Original Wraps. A special issue containing forty-eight papers on the subject of transistors. Front wrap features a drawing of the Atomic Structure of Germanium Crystal. Includes papers by virtually all of the major figures of the time. [Not in OOC]. Light shelf/edge wear, small closed tear at heel with related creasing, light soiling to wrappers, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Glossy printed wraps. 4to. pp. 1, 281-1, 632 [351pp] plus 176pp adverts. Illus. (b/w plates).

History of the Russian-Japanese War, Editors-Publishers M.E. Barkhatov and V.V. Funke. In 6 Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: T-vo R. Golika and A. Wilborg, 1907-1909. Vol. 5: 6, 1033-1282 p. /Istoriya Russko-Yaponskoy voyny redaktory-izdateli M.E. Barkhatov i V.V. Funke. V 6 t. T. 5. SPb. : T-vo R. Golike i A. Vil'borg, 1907-1909. T. 5: 6, 1033-1282 s. Short description: The book was not intended to be scientific, but relied on a fairly wide range of sources, whether published, in manuscripts or orally: official documents, the memories of the participants, both Russian military and European officers and journalists, who followed the war. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-319c14150a4a48e8.

First Edition. Original Wraps. A special issue containing forty-eight papers on the subject of transistors. Front wrap features a drawing of the Atomic Structure of Germanium Crystal. Includes papers by virtually all of the major figures of the time. [Not in OOC]. Light shelf/edge wear, small closed tear at heel with related creasing, light soiling to wrappers, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Glossy printed wraps. 4to. pp. 1, 281-1, 632 [351pp] plus 176pp adverts. Illus. (b/w plates).

First Edition. Original Wraps. Subject text at: 756-767pp. Burks was a senior engineer on the team that developed the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer. A rather monumental paper. "The ENIAC performs the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square-rooting, and the looking up of function values automatically....The technique of combining the basic electronic circuits to perform these functions is illustrated by three typical computing circuits: the addition circuit, a programming circuit, and the multiplication circuit" [p. 756]. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of foxing at the front wrapper, small owner address sticker, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wrappers. 4to. 70pp. plus adverts. Illus. (b/w plates).

2 Volume Set. Volume I, xxiv, 443, [1] pages. Glossary. Appendix. Volume II. xiv, [2], 376, [8] pages. Footnote. Appendix. Index. Maps and illustrations collated and found to be complete. Some page discoloration noted. Large volumes and boards show some weakness. This is a heavy set and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. With photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 full page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition, panoramas and maps. Name of previous owner [Ralph Steinhardt, Jr. --possibly the member of the Special Engineer Detachment of the Manhattan Project stationed at Los Alamos during WWII] inside front covers. Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Volume I appears to have a typographical error in the colour illustrations, with the item differently title and the page given as 288 instead of its location at 238. Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860-3 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor. Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed, despite Scott's written instructions, and at a distance of 162 miles from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered, they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition, Scott had a career as a Royal Navy officer. In 1899, he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, and learned of a planned Antarctic expedition, which he soon volunteered to lead. His name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death, Scott became a celebrated hero, a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK.

2 Volume Set. Volume I, xxiv, 443, [1] pages. Glossary. Appendix. Volume II. xiv, [2], 376, [8] pages. Footnote. Appendix. Index. Maps and illustrations collated and found to be complete. Some page discoloration noted. Large volumes and boards show some weakness. This is a heavy set and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. With photogravure frontispieces, 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr. E. A. Wilson, 18 coloured plates (16 from drawings by Dr. Wilson), 260 full page and smaller illustrations from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other members of the expedition, panoramas and maps. Name of previous owner [Ralph Steinhardt, Jr. --possibly the member of the Special Engineer Detachment of the Manhattan Project stationed at Los Alamos during WWII] inside front covers. Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Volume I appears to have a typographical error in the colour illustrations, with the item differently title and the page given as 288 instead of its location at 238. Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860-3 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor. Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed, despite Scott's written instructions, and at a distance of 162 miles from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered, they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition, Scott had a career as a Royal Navy officer. In 1899, he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, and learned of a planned Antarctic expedition, which he soon volunteered to lead. His name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death, Scott became a celebrated hero, a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK.

First Edition. Original Wraps. Subject text at: 756-767pp. Burks was a senior engineer on the team that developed the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer. A rather monumental paper. "The ENIAC performs the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square-rooting, and the looking up of function values automatically....The technique of combining the basic electronic circuits to perform these functions is illustrated by three typical computing circuits: the addition circuit, a programming circuit, and the multiplication circuit" [p. 756]. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of foxing at the front wrapper, small owner address sticker, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wrappers. 4to. 70pp. plus adverts. Illus. (b/w plates).

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Two volumes. Octavo. First edition. Original vertically grained blue cloth with gilt blind-stamped lettering to the front board and spine, as well as gilt blind-stamped borders. Original buff coloured dust jackets with black lettering and borders. Gilt to top edge of text block; other edges untrimmed. Eight photogravure plates--including both frontispieces--eighteen color plates; black and white plates, which includes the folding panoramics; in-text illustrations and eight folding maps, with one in colour. Former owner's bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes, as well as their gift inscription. Dust jackets have been backed onto stiff card-paper; professional restoration to the jackets, with some toning still apparent. Mild toning along the edges of the textblock. Occasional spotting throughout. Newspaper clippings relating to the memorial service for Scott, as well as an obituary for Dr. Wilson, have been laid in loose; two related clippings have been affixed to the ffep in both volumes. Overall, a very good set with the original jackets. Rosove 290. A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77. The true first edition of this set, which belonged to John Rogers Charles. Charles was good friends with Dr. Edward Wilson, having been in the same year with him at Cambridge. Wilson and Charles maintained their friendship after graduation and the death of Wilson has been described as a life long loss for Charles, a point which appears to be well illustrated by the various newspaper clippings that have been laid in the book. A fantastic association copy!

Two volumes. Octavo. First edition. Original vertically grained blue cloth with gilt blind-stamped lettering to the front board and spine, as well as gilt blind-stamped borders. Original buff coloured dust jackets with black lettering and borders. Gilt to top edge of text block; other edges untrimmed. Eight photogravure plates--including both frontispieces--eighteen color plates; black and white plates, which includes the folding panoramics; in-text illustrations and eight folding maps, with one in colour. Former owner's bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes, as well as their gift inscription. Dust jackets have been backed onto stiff card-paper; professional restoration to the jackets, with some toning still apparent. Mild toning along the edges of the textblock. Occasional spotting throughout. Newspaper clippings relating to the memorial service for Scott, as well as an obituary for Dr. Wilson, have been laid in loose; two related clippings have been affixed to the ffep in both volumes. Overall, a very good set with the original jackets. Rosove 290. A1; Spence 1056; Taurus 77. The true first edition of this set, which belonged to John Rogers Charles. Charles was good friends with Dr. Edward Wilson, having been in the same year with him at Cambridge. Wilson and Charles maintained their friendship after graduation and the death of Wilson has been described as a life long loss for Charles, a point which appears to be well illustrated by the various newspaper clippings that have been laid in the book. A fantastic association copy!

xxvi, 633; xiv, (1), 534 pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Original gilt lettered vertically ribbed blue cloth. Title on spine and front board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Eight photogravure plates (including frontispieces), eighteen color plates, many other B&W plates (including folding panoramic), illustrations and 8 folding maps (including 1 in colour). A great unfaded copy. No restoration. Rosove 290. A1; Spence 1056, Taurus 77, Conrad p 188. The true first edition of the classic-probably the best known and one of the most often reprinted titles about the Antarctic. A fabulous association copy inscribed and signed from Kathleen Scott to E. McKenzie, Leading Stoker on the expedition. McKenzie has additionally signed the front free endpaper in volume 2 "Edward Mc Kenzie S. Y. Terra Nova B a E" The British Antarctic Expedition set sail from Cardiff on 15 June 1910, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, with the aim of being the first to reach the South Pole. Scott and his party of four men reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian Roald Amunden had arrived there almost a month earlier and beaten them to the prize. Five men in the British party died on their journey back to the base camp. The bodies of the final three members of the party were discovered on 12 November 1912 by a search party lead by Charles Wright, along with letters and diaries which provided details of their journey and upon which these volumes are based. A wonderful chance to obtain an expedition member related copy signed by Kathleen Scott.

xxvi, 633; xiv, (1), 534 pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Original gilt lettered vertically ribbed blue cloth. Title on spine and front board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Eight photogravure plates (including frontispieces), eighteen color plates, many other B&W plates (including folding panoramic), illustrations and 8 folding maps (including 1 in colour). A great unfaded copy. No restoration. Rosove 290. A1; Spence 1056, Taurus 77, Conrad p 188. The true first edition of the classic-probably the best known and one of the most often reprinted titles about the Antarctic. A fabulous association copy inscribed and signed from Kathleen Scott to E. McKenzie, Leading Stoker on the expedition. McKenzie has additionally signed the front free endpaper in volume 2 "Edward Mc Kenzie S. Y. Terra Nova B a E" The British Antarctic Expedition set sail from Cardiff on 15 June 1910, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, with the aim of being the first to reach the South Pole. Scott and his party of four men reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian Roald Amunden had arrived there almost a month earlier and beaten them to the prize. Five men in the British party died on their journey back to the base camp. The bodies of the final three members of the party were discovered on 12 November 1912 by a search party lead by Charles Wright, along with letters and diaries which provided details of their journey and upon which these volumes are based. A wonderful chance to obtain an expedition member related copy signed by Kathleen Scott.