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102 pages. Features: New Horizons in British Aviation - article with great photos; Holiday on Floats; Let's Learn to Fly - part 7; "We Can't Fly Without Airports" Series - Chippewa Airport; Report from Ottawa; The Boeing Stratofreighter; New RAF Elementary Trainer - Percival Prentice; 11,000 mile flight of the Truculent Turtle - U.S. Navy Lockheed Neptune; Weatherman Rules Atlantic Flight; Flying Luscombe's Silvaire; Waco's Silver Jubilee Model Aristocraft; and more. Many pages of great ads including a great full-page ad for Fairey featuring a photo of the H.M.C.S. Warrior, the first carrier in the Royal Canadian Navy. Small faint ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Contents: Infant mortality in the U.S.; The moons of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto; The fundamental physical limits of computation; The evolution of Darwinism; The chemosensory recognition of genetic individuality; Minoan palaces; Fossil water under the Sinai-Negev peninsula; Milkweeds and their visitors. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
2010Q-1888034017Loose Cannon Press 2010-09-03. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Loose Cannon Press paperback
carte34t11Dimension du cadre : 52 x 61,5 cm. Cum adjacentibus insulis nova delineatione ob oculos pofita per Matthaeum Seutter. Cum gratia et Privil. S.R.I vicarcatus in partibus rheni, suevioe et juris franconici. Royaume de l'Inde. Magnifique carte, en très bon état général, dans un cadre sympathique.
194715219Paris, Vrin, 1947 ; in-8, broché ; 280 pp., 1 figure et 4 cartes départementales (Finistère, Côtes du Nord, Morbihan, Ille et Vilaine).
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
184548802Paris Bachelier 1845. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences" Vol. 21 No 19. Pp. 1009- 1082 entire issue offered. With titlepage to vol. 21. Le Verrier's paper: pp. 1050-1055. Stamp to top of titlepage. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Le Verrier's first paper on the anomalities in the orbit of Uranus the calculations on which eventually leading to his prediction and discovery of a new planet Neptune the following year 1846. </em> unknown
184549635Paris Bachelier 1845 a. 1846. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences" Vol. 21 No 19 Vol. 22 No 22 Vol. 23 Nos 9 14 16 a. 17. 6 entire issues offered. Le verrier's papers: pp. 1050-1055 No 19 pp. 907-919 no 22 pp. 428-438 No 9 pp. 657-659 659-643 676 No 14 pp. 741 741-754 754 No 16 pp. 798-799 799-800 No 17. With title-pages to vol. 2122 a. 23. Titlepages with a small stamp in upper corner and a perforated stamp to lower margin. Light yellowing to title-pages otherwise clean and fine on good paper. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Le Verrier's importent and famous papers predicting and confirming the discovery of the Planet Neptune including the "preparatory" paper the first paper on the anomalities in the orbit of Uranus the calculations on which eventually leading to his prediction and discovery of a new planet Neptune the following year 1846."In 1846 John Cauch Adams. and Urban J. Leverrier. simultaneously and independently determined the location of a possible new planet. In 1845 he wrote of his findings of the mathematical location of a new planet to Sir George Bidell Airy Because Adams was unknown his letter was put aside. Meanwhile the same perturbations of Uranus had become of interest to Leverrier. On July 1should be June ! 1846 he presented a paper "Recherches sur les mouvements d'Uranus" to the Academie des Sciences inParis. When Airy realized that Leverrier and Adams had reached the same conclusions he hastened to suggest that a search be made for the newplanert. Shortly hereafter it was seen bur not recognized. About a week before it was found in England it was discovered by Galle in Berlin on information supplied by Leverrier. Thus the honour of the discovery or even co-discovery of the new planet Neptune was lost to Adams and credited to Leverrier. Adams paper was reade before the Royal Astronomical Society November 13 1846 and was published in 1847. Milestones p. 40.Milestones of Science No 132. - Dibner No. 16. </em> unknown
184647206Paris Bachelier 1846. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendu hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences" Vol. 22 No 22. Pp. 893- 928. Entire issue offered. Le Verrier's paper: pp. 907-018. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Le Verrier's paper in which he postulated the existance of a new planet on mathematical premises from the gravitational disturbencies of Uranus."In 1846 John Cauch Adams. and Urban J. Leverrier. simultaneously and independently determined the location of a possible new planet. In 1845 he wrote of his findings of the mathematical location of a new planet to Sir George Bidell Airy Because Adams was unknown his letter was put aside. Meanwhile the same perturbations of Uranus had become of interest to Leverrier. On July 1should be June ! 1846 he presented a paper "Recherches sur les mouvements d'Uranus" the paper offered to the Academie des Sciences inParis. When Airy realized that Leverrier and Adams had reached the same conclusions he hastened to suggest that a search be made for the newplanert. Shortly hereafter it was seen bur not recognized. About a week before it was found in England it was discovered by Galle in Berlin on information supplied by Leverrier. Thus the honour of the discovery or even co-discovery of the new planet Neptune was lost to Adams and credited to Leverrier. Adams paper was reade before the Royal Astronomical Society November 13 1846 and was published in 1847. Milestones p. 40.Milestones of Science No 132. - Dibner No. 16. </em> unknown
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. This work remains the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the various types of landing craft, support ships and amphibians developed for seaborne landings. Enser, p.11; Law 1092
1965727421PN. New. 1965. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1994mon0000185807John Neptune 1/1/1994 12:00:00 AM. paperback. Very Good. 0.2000 in x 10.1000 in x 7.1000 in. very clean 1976 plastic comb bound softcover. no marks. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. John Neptune paperback
3933London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Without date but docketed in pencil as an offprint 'From Nautical Almanac 1856'. English astronomer 1819-92 whose mathematical prediction of the existence of Neptune anticipated Le Verrier's discovery of that planet. Octavo. Unbound. Ten leaves and one blank. Paginated 35-53. Very good. Five pages of text 35-9 four tables pp.40-3 and a set of 'Tables containing the corrections to be applied to the values of the moon's equatorial horizontal parallax given in the nautical almanacs 1840-1855 in order to make them agree with those calculated from Mr. Adams' tables.' pp.46-53. One small closed tear to antepenultimate leaf. Accompanied by five leaves of pertinent calculations in a contemporary hand. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Without date, but docketed in pencil as an offprint ' unknown
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.163; Law 0557.
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear. An insider's account of the planning of D-Day and beyond. Enser, p.202.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.291.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression, with 23 plates (one double-page); blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Early contemporary account of the reality of the D-Day Landings. Published in the same month as the first edition. Enser, p.31; Law, 0553.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.63.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Masterly compilation of eyewitness accounts with thorough background. Enser, p.162.
ria9780807857885_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Presenting the story of the installation and operation of US bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II this title examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-b paperback
63-7282Geneve Switzerland: Grill-Room "Le Neptune". Hotel Du Rhone 1961. Folio. Laminated Folders with Paper Printed Menu Inside. Very Good 8 pp. Illustrated. En Francais.Provenance: Michelin Archives. Collection Guy Legay. Clermont-Ferrand France. Geneve, Switzerland: Grill-Room "Le Neptune". Hotel Du Rhone, 1961. unknown
1358894523.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Features: Are the Hill Lines Preparing to Invade California Territory?; Big Railway Systems of U.S. Cutting Expenses; Prepare for the Panama Canal! (Editorial); Nautical biography of Capt. James S. Gibson (with photo); What Should We Do To Be Prepared For the Opening of the Panama Canal?; Salvage of Steamer Spokane is Praised by Marine Experts - article with photo; Portland to have powerful fireboat; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; New Collier Neptune Takes on 13,000 tons of coal in One Day - article with photo; Floating Gridiron for Scows designed by George Francis Fay is built by the Drummond Lighterage Co. - feature article with two photos and three diagrams; News of Tacoma; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; Largest scow on the Pacific Coast built by Nelson & Kelez of Seattle - brief article with photo; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1844 - 52 ème Livraison - In-4 - 4 pages de texte - 4 gravures - Propre
