olmsted professor (3 resultados)

Softcover(Saddle-stitched). Condición: Fair Condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Wrappers worn, soiled, interior foxed with some stained spots, considerable offset browning from the wrappers on title page & last page. Olmsted was Professor at the University of North Carolina for a short time, and is credited with making the first state-wide geological survey in the U. S. He did pioneering work in the field of meteor science, studied the aurora borealis. He was a pioneer astronomer. This work was first published in the New Englander, Feb. 1849. Size: 8vo. 32 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

softcover. Off Print. Pamphlet is disbound with pinholes, vertical crease, and browned edges. Stains on last page and succeeding ones. Title page unstained. ; 32 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. NY: Dayton & Newman, 1842. Copyright 1842. Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine, NY. Printed by George W. Wood & Co, NY. 252 pages. 7.5x4.75", black cloth, gold title, blind stamped decorative panel on boards, 'Elles & Middlebrook, Binders' in border. 'L.J. Dudley' in ink on upper blank. Mason born Washington, CT, 1819, Yale, 1839, abandoned graduate studies to join Maine boundary expedition, 1840, published 'Observations on Nebulae' in Transactions of American Philosophical Society, 'Introduction to Practical Astronomy', died Richmond, VA, 1840. Tips bit frayed, cover rubbed, spotted, foxed, else VG.