Search Results: Books by hall sir james

Longmans Green & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. New Impression. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Green paper covered boards. Latin and English text. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and marking to pastedowns and front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to spine edges. Staining overall.

Concord, NH: The Atlantic Monthly Co., 1934. Paperback. Good Plus. Complete issue with original covers and advertisements. Light chipping and tiny tear to front edge of front cover affecting first few pages, light soiling, well bound, clean and unmarked. Inquires about condition details and content always welcome. Comes in a clear archival bag.

London : Longman, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback viii + 246 pages Very Good condition Previous owner's name on front end paper otherwise no inscriptions.

London: Longman, 1977 Complete, clean and tightly bound book. 246 pages. Size: Approx 5" Wide and 7¾ " Tall

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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The influential English geologist is actually best known for his "Origin, History and Principles of Gothic Architecture," a 1797 lecture delivered in Edinburgh that was subsequently published in a number of editions; he was father of the noted travel writer Basil Hall (1788-1844). Excellent content ALS, 2pp, 7¼" X 8 3/4", Edinburgh, Scotland, 1824 April 20. Addressed simply to "Sir." Very good. Slightest of age toning. Interesting bookish contents, reading in part: "I now return with many thanks the books which you have been so kind as to lend me. The following is the list of them which I trust you will find to be correct. The principia of Sir I. Newton translated into English by Motte in two volumes... Robinson's Mechanical Philosophy... Nouvelles experience sur la resistance des fluides... I have used the freedom to keep these books some days longer than I intended to have done; being tempted to run over the last which I have done with great satisfaction having used the freedom to cut open the… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.. Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 364 pages. Two partially-coloured fold-out maps, of Australia and New Zealand, in excellent condition. Chapters include: Australia - General; New South Wales; Victoria; Queensland; South Australia; Western Australia; Australian Aboriginals; The Beginnings of an Australian Literature; Australian Fisheries; Tasmania; The Lost Tasmanian Race; New Zealand; The Maoris; Women of Australasia; British New Guinea; The Islands of the Western Pacific. Dark reddish cloth-covered boards adorned with gilt. Binding sound. Prior owner's name, dated 1911, inside front board. Moderate quanity of light pencil markings, primarily to latter half of book. Moderate wear. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Australasia - Volume IV of The British Empire Series Maps Australia - General; New South Wales; Victoria; Queensland; South Australia; Western Australia; Australian… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Cadell and Davies, London, 1815. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Two original articles disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding titles refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 79-108,139-211,[1]pp, complete with nine copper-plate engravings. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Geology Emerging 994. Hall founded the field of experimental geology and was a supporter of Hutton's Theory of the Earth. In the first paper, "On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata" (see DSB, vol. 6, p. 55), he conjectured that series of closely packed folds in Lower Paleozoic rocks in southern Scotland had been formed by lateral pressure. To test the theory, he constructed a machine in which layers… Read More