Resultados de búsqueda: Biography -- Science from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Jonathan Cape, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 500 g.; X, 278 pages, last three pages blank, intentionally, list of illustrations. Dark cream coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with 12 pages of black-and-white photographs, throughout the text. Brown coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Faint orange coloured tint to the top text block edge. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners and edges. A few marks and browning to the internal text. Colour photographic front cover, showing a chimpanze, with white and peach coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper are corners and to the top edge of the front dustwrapper panel. The laminate has started to lift to the lower edge of the backstrip which has also been frankly faded. A few marks to the laminate of the dustwrapper. With… Leer más

New Era Writers Guild, Dorset, England, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. This entertaining book consists of a collection of light-hearted stories, each of which can be read and enjoyed on its own. – The history and present activities of the Weizmann Institute of Science are outlined in an Appendix. – Rear panel blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 135 pages. No damage to describe. Clean tidy copy. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Biography -- Science; Israel; Science. ISBN: 1899694501. ISBN/EAN: 9781899694501. Inventory No: 0264945. . 9781899694501

A. & C. Black, London, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 360 g.; XIV, 174 pages, last page blank, two pages following further books published by publishing house, introduction by author, translator's note, list of illustrations and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, of Albert Schweitzer sitting just below his old house looking towards the sight chosen for the new hospital. The text is illustrated with 16 black and white photographs and a plan of the new hospital at Lambarene. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the text block edges and rubbing to the book corners. Aiding to the backstrip and rubbing to the backstrip creases. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Like Browning to the endpapers and light browning to the internal text along with the occasional foxing spot. The memoirs of Albert Schweitzer and of the Equatorial hospital at… Leer más

Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, Victoria, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. XXXII, 224 pages, the last two pages blank, foreword by Penny McCarthy and Tessa Spella, institutional abbreviations, glossary of medical terms, notes and bibliography. Maroon coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and reproductions of documents and the occasional black-and-white illustrations. Blue coloured boards with red and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the top edge of the front panel. Rubbing to the book corners. Some staining to the lower edge of the text block edge. There is a triangular crease to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper. Photographic dustwrapper, showing to haemophiliac boys one from the 1950s and one from the 1990s against a blue coloured background with red and white coloured titles to the… Leer más