Edward poste trans (4 resultados)

Condición: Fair. 1890. Third Edition. 685 pages. No dust jacket. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Pen notes on rear endpaper. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with large splits to front joint. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.…

Hardcover. Condición: Poor. No Dust Jacket. The covers and corners are worn and the front hinge is very weak. The title page has completely separated from the spine and the other pages are beginning to also come loose. Extensive pencil underlining. The pages are well tanned and worn with age. The first page has been signed in pen. 668 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).…

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. (20 x 12 cm). pp. xvi+143. Contemporary green pebbled cloth with paper label to spine. Ownership inscription of 'R. P. Hardie' to front flyleaf. Some ink stains to boards, label browned and damaged; binding slightly sprung. Generally very good. Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' is a treatise on scientific demonstration and knowledge, part of the Organon, in which he sets out the conditions under which a syllogism can produce genuine scientific knowledge rather than merely probable or dialectical conclusions. It examines the nature of demonstrative proof, definition, and first principles, arguing that all demonstration must ultimately rest on premises that are themselves true, primary, and known immediately rather than derived. This copy is inscribed by Robert Purves Hardie (18641942), a Scottish philosopher, mathematician, and translator, best known for his translation of Aristotle's Physics in the Oxford translation of Aristotle's works. He was also a founding member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 4th Edition. This copy belonged to Prof. Nic Wiehahn. Wiehahn was a South African labour expert and was best known for heading the Wiehahn Commission, which proposed in 1979 that black trade unions be afforded legal recognition. Gilt titling to spine. The navy blue boards are shelf-rubbed and rubbed at all extremities. The spine ends are scuffed and the edges are fraying. The top edge of the spine is split for three quarters of its length from the top and the bottom edge is starting to split. The front joint is severely cracked. Wiehahn's rubber stamp appears five times in the prelims and there is also another prev owner's name dd 1925 to the ffep. The endpapers are browned. There is an inkstain to the bottom outer corner affecting the front pastedown and all the introductory pages. The pages are rough-cut and the bottom edge of the textblock has another two of Wiehahn's rubber stamps. The 668pp of well-thumbed text are very extensively underlined and annotated - largely in pencil. There are a couple of inkblots to the text but there is virtually no foxing. Some of the pages of the publisher's catalogue at the back are uncut and there are notes to the rear endpapers. This is a volume that has been worked through very thoroughly.…