Thomas E. Schneider:Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY)
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London: Flight Publishing, 1941. 184pp. xviii pp. adverts. Special illustrations : Folding plate of the Supermarine Spitfire and 2 page plates of the De Havilland Albatross Transport, Ai… More...
London: Flight Publishing, 1941. 184pp. xviii pp. adverts. Special illustrations : Folding plate of the Supermarine Spitfire and 2 page plates of the De Havilland Albatross Transport, Airspeed Oxford and Fairey Battle Medium Bomber. 115 figures. No inscriptions. Blue-grey cloth, lower front corner of boards bleached/faded, contents VG.. Second Edition reprint. Hardback. Good+ in worn dustwrapper., Flight Publishing, 1941, Marvel Comics, 2018. Staple Bound. Like New. 6.75 x 10. Cable stars in power-packed adventures from an explosive era! The Askani'son's world is rocked when he battles Jack Truman, the highly trained S.H.I.E.L.D. operative known as Agent 18! When the Nemesis Contract is opened, Cable will face the wrath of Zzzax, the fury of Nick Fury and the portent of Project Deathlok! Then, when Stryfe strikes, Nathan must unite with his "blood brother" Nate Grey - the headstrong young refugee from the Age of Apocalypse known as X-Man - to stop him! But Cable will need help from the Avengers when the end times draw near, courtesy of the Harbinger of Apocalypse! Plus: Rachel Summers - the once and future Phoenix - makes her return! With the Prophecy of the Twelve looming on the horizon, will Cable embrace his Apocalyptic destiny? Collecting CABLE (1993) #59-70 and ANNUAL '99 and X-MAN #45-47. Rated TNemesis Contract, Part 4: Strange Agencies. Series: Cable Comic. Writer: Joe Casey Penciller: José Ladrönn Inker: Scott Koblish, Juan Vlasco Colorist: Gloria Vasquez Letterer: Comicraft, Richard Starkings Cover Penciller: José Ladrönn Cover Inker: Juan Vlasco Editor: Mark Powers Editor: in Chief Bob Harras Publisher: Marvel Comics; 1st edition (1 8) Language: English ASIN: B001551 U Shipping Weight: 9 ounces, Marvel Comics, 2018, London: Gollancz, 1955. Quarter Cloth. Very Good. Professionally rebound in quarter turquoise cloth and handmade marble paper ( sky-like design with a background of pale grey and detail in blue ), with a matching blue leather label titled in gold, 18 in-text drawings by Kenneth Gosner,299pp.; 223 x 135 mm, 299pp. Text is in 3 parts examining the flight of insects, birds and man. The flight of insects started with wings hinged to the body which had to be kept in a horizontal positions (e.g. dragonflies), gresshoppers developed fan-like folding wings and this led to beetle wings and the novel introduction of sound producing wings, bird wings developed the use of feathers producing flapping and gliding wings. Man's early experiments with flapping wings were unsucessful and flight was only achievedwith the adoption of Sir John Cayley's idea of the use of a rigid inclined plane and a later patent in 1842 which described a monoplane with rigid wings, mechanically driven with propellers., Gollancz, 1955, The Royal Society, London, 1972. First edition. Library Buckram. Ex-Library. iv, 500 pages. With plates, tables, diagrams & illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. llight wear & light soiling to spine, covers & corners. SERIES B VOLUME 182NUMBER 1066 25 JULY 1972⢠Observations upon the metabolism of iluorocitrate in rats. By Sir Rudolph Peters, P.R.S., M. Shorthouse, P. P. V. Ward and E. M. McDowell ⢠The skeletal phenotype of some mouse chimaeras. By H. Grüneberg, P.R.S. and Anne McLaren⢠The conjugation of phenylacetic acid in man, sub-human primates and some non-primate species. By Margaret 0. James, R. L. Smith, R. T. Williams, P.R.S. and M. Reidenberg⢠The breeding and distribution of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus Pab.) in the Baltic Sea, with observations on other seals of the area. By O. Hook and A. G. Johnels (Plates 1 to 4) ⢠A hydrodynamical analysis of fish turning manoeuvres. By D. Weihs (Plate 5)⢠Neurophysins and posterior pituitary hormones in the Suiformes. By L. O. Uttenthal and D. B. Hope (Plates 6 and 7)⢠The reconstruction of a three-dimensional structure from projections and its application to electron microscopy. II. Direct methods. By P. F. C. Gilbert ⢠Platelet adhesion in the rabbit abdominal aorta following the removal of endothelium with EDTA. By B. L. Sheppard (Plates 8 to 15)NUMBER 1067 19 SEPTEMBER 1972⢠Review Lecture. Disruptive selection. By J. M. Thoday, F.R.S. ⢠The angular distribution of the light produced by some mesopelagic fish in relation to their camouflage. By E. J. Denton, F.R.S., J. B. Gilpin-Brown and P. G. Wright⢠The uptake of glucose by a thermophilic Bacillus sp. By P. Harris and H. L. Kornberg, F.R.S.⢠Role of phosphoenolpyruvate-phosphotransferase in glucose utilization by bacilli. By H. L. Kornberg, F.R.S. and Elaine K. Miller⢠The molars of tabby chimaeras in the mouse. By H. Grüneberg, F.R.S., B. M. Cattanach, Anne McLaren, H. G. Wolfe and Patricia Bowman⢠The role of lymphocytes in antibody formation. III. The origin from small lymphocytes of cells forming direct and indirectâhaemolytic plaques to sheep erythrocytes in the rat. By J. C. Howard and J. L. Gowans, F.R.S.⢠The role of lymphocytes in antibody formation. IV. Carriage of immunological memory by lymphocyte fractions separated by velocity sedimentation and on glass bead columns. By S. V. Hunt, Susan T. Ellis and J. L. Gowans, F.R.S.⢠A simple network capable of inductive generalization. By D. J. Willshaw⢠The reflecting structure in the iridescent cornea of the serranid teleost Nemanthias carberryi. By N. A. Locket (Plates 16 and 17) Number 1068 10 October 1972⢠Review Lecture. The algorithmic description of natural language. By H. C. Longuet-Higgins, F.R.S.⢠Stereochemistry of isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase. By J. W. Comforth, F.R.S., K. Clifford, R. Mallaby and G. T. Phillips⢠Factors affecting the amount of tobacco mosaic virus nucleic acid in phenol- treated extracts from tobacco leaves.⢠By Sir Frederick Bawden, Treas.R.S. and N. W. Pirie, F.R.S.⢠The inhibition, inactivation and precipitation of tobacco mosaic virus nucleic acid by components of leaf extracts. By Sir Frederick Bawden, Treas.R.S. and N. W. Pirie, F.R.S.⢠The structure and formation of growth-ridges in scleractinian coral skeletons. By D. J. Barnes (Plates 18 to 21) ⢠Flow behaviour of erythrocytes. I. Rotation and deformation in dilute suspen sions. By H. L. Goldsmith and Jean MarlowNUMBER 1069 5 DECEMBER 1972⢠The Croonian Lecture, 1972. Functional ethology and the human sciences. By N. Tinbergen, F.R.S.⢠Review Lecture. The prostaglandins. By E. W. Horton Review Lecture. Behavioural analysis of the monkeyâs visual nervous system. By L. Weiskrantz⢠The superposition eye of skipper butterflies. By G. A. Horridge, F.R.S., C. Giddings and G. Stange (Plates 22 to 34) Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biology, Natural History & Botany; Health & Medicine; Magazines & Periodicals; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014668. ., The Royal Society, 1972, London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1872. First edition. Don Juan discourses to his wife on the attractions of a gipsy dancer. "The whole of Mr. Browning's poem ... is an illustration of his text that the life of man is an error lived by the help of truth, a life of falsehood which implies the need and capacity for reality, a life of illusion grounded and fulfilled in some ultimate perception of true being, a life of endless yearning after that which always eludes and yet always inspires us ... This is the theme which Mr. Browning pursues through many a page of his eccentric, caustic, abrupt, business-like passion, into something like a philosophy of love, of beauty, of art, and even of faith" (from the original "Spectator" review). Foolscap 8vo (18cm). xii,(172)pp. Original red-brown cloth over bevelled boards, ruled in black on upper and lower cover and spine, blocked and lettered in gilt on spine; grey endpapers; a touch dulled; very faint wear to extremities; mild spotting of endpapers, but a very good copy. Wise 15., London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1872., UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,grey/black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,generally clean,matt,pale beige background with subject's sepia biographical photograph to upper panel, colour image of lily-pad+flowers to rear panel,red+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners. Majority of creasing with several small nicks and closed tears - no loss - to top edges,corners minisculely bumped with slight rubbing; to the foot of spine/backstrip to rear panel's spine/ backs trip's gutter-edge of dw/dj,has a small triangular piece missing.Top+fore-edges whilst slightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal - is generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean solid and sound,though book is very slightly cocked.No dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,red+green striped headband,and immaculate sepia illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn, xipp+2-307pp [paginated] includes b/w Plan map of Chatsworth showing Paxton's additions,prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 25 chapters,b/w chapter headpieces,several b/w illus throughout the text and the book,16pp contemporary colour illustrations+ sepia photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp84/5 and pp212/13 respectively,appendix,notes,a note on currency,acknowledgements,a select bibliography,picture credits and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,a prose extract (from Oscar and Lucinda,by Peter Carey), b/w vig netted (watering-can) dedication,contents list/table and Pts separator pages.Loosely laid in,is an ephemeral,Adult's Admission ticket to the National Zoological Gardens,Dehiwala,Sri Lanka,with programme of Performances listed to obverse. In the 19thC,which witnessed a revolution in horticulture,urban planning and architecture,Joseph Paxton,a man with no formal education,strode like a colossus.Head gardener at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three,and encouraged by the sixth Duke of Devonshire whose patronage soon flourished into the defining friendship of his life,Paxton set about transforming this Derbyshire estate into the greatest garden in England.Visitors there were astonished by the enormous glasshouses and ambitious waterworks he built,the collection of orchids,the largest in all England,the dwarf bananas and the gargantuan lily,the trees and plants brought back from all over the world.Queen Victoria came to marvel and, increasingly,with the development of the railway in which Paxton was involved,daytrippers from all over the country. It was the Crystal Palace,home of the Great Exhibition in 1851, that secured Paxton's fame.His design,initially doodled on a piece of blotting paper,was the architectural triumph of its time. Two thousand men worked for eight months to complete it.It was six times the size of St Paul's Cathedral,enclosed a space ofeighteen acres,and entertained six million visitors.By the time of his death fourteen years later,'the busiest man in England' according to Dickens,was friends with Brunel and Stephenson and in constant demand to design public parks and gardens. One of his last,seemingly most eccentric projects was for a Great Boulevard under glass,a crystal arcade that would connect all the main railway termini in London. Drawing on thousands of Paxton's personal letters,Kate Colquhoun's remarkable biography is a compelling story of a man who typifies the Victorian ideal of self- improvement and a touching portrait of one of that era's great heroes. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyondr.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE,2003., University of Missouri, 2005-11-18. Hardcover. Good., University of Missouri, 2005-11-18<