riggs thomas editor (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1988. 1st edition. 1st printing. Hardcover book. Tight binding. Sharp corners. The text part of the book is clean and unmarked. Sealed in Shrink Wrap for protection in storage and shipping. Expertly packed. *PROFESSIONAL BOOKSELLER* Returns accepted. Refunds given.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. (42)1197pp. Crisp unread condition. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years. Size: Large 4to. REFERENCE.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 1558622225. Second Edition. Oversized, Heavy, Hardback. No Dust jacket. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

1976. (Staplebound) Very good. 56pp. Black and white and color illustrations, photographs, tables, maps. Special Issue - the American Revolution. Includes Fairfax Downey (Rise of the U.S. Cavalry), Jerry Keenan (Ashore at New Providence), Harry Kelsey (" Eat Your Heart Out, Capt. Campbell"), Mike Koury (Military Art), David F. Riggs (Thomas Paine's Crisis and Trying Times in the Trenton Campaign) & Charles R. Smith (Willing's Marine Expedition). Locale: United States. (Military, American Revolution).

Hardcover. Limited Edition. Octavo; 490 pages with 11 illustrations/folding maps; G+; Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; Bumping and rubbing to corners, minor wear to edges, minor shelfwear; Textblock has light age toning to some pages; Limited Edition 254/1000; RWO. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Wegewood Section. 1360126. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Mild wear to boards in overall excellent condition. Preface by Fatima Bercht. Published in Conjunction with the Association of Hispanic Arts and the Association for Latin American Art. BW photos, 682 pages, 22 x 28,8 cm., ISBN 1558624708. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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Wraps. Condición: Good. Thomas Riggs, Jr. (Photographer) Ilustrador. [4] 585-680, [and 10 pages of advertisements] Illustrations. Maps. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling Tears at spine at top and bottom. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. This issue focuses on Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and includes articles on The Economic Evolution of Alaska by Major General Adolphus W. Greely (Illustrated), Marking the Alaskan Boundary by Thomas Riggs, Jr. (with 17 illustrations), Charting a Coast-line of 26,000 miles, The Monarchs of Alaska by R. H. Sargent (with 9 illustrations), The Big Game of Alaska by Wilfred H. Osgood (with 10 illustrations), Some Giant Fishes of the Sea by Hugh M. Smith (with 6 illustrations), Our Pacific Northwest by N. H. Darton (with 13 illustrations), ad The Tallest Tree that Grows by Edgerton R. Young (illustrated), The Eucalyptus Tree (illustrated), Magnetic Observations in Alaska by Daniel L. Hazard, and Agricultural Capacity of Alaska by C. C. Georgeson. Thomas W. Riggs Jr. (October 17, 1873 - January 16, 1945) was an American engineer who worked extensively in Alaska Territory, first as a leader of the team which surveyed the Alaska-Canada border and later as a Commissioner oversee construction of the Alaska Railroad. He was appointed Governor of Alaska Territory and served from 1918 till 1921. During his later life, Riggs served as United States Commissioner to the International Boundary Commission.R. H. Sargent was with the United States Geological Survey.Wilfred Hudson Osgood (December 8, 1875 - June 20, 1947) was an American zoologist. He joined the staff of the Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, of the United States Department of Agriculture at the age of 22. This group later became the Bureau of Biological Survey under Clinton Hart Merriam. In 1909 he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and curator of zoology from 1921 to 1940. He collected in North America and Chile. He traveled with Louis Agassiz Fuertes to Ethiopia in the 1920s. He wrote The Mammals of Chile (1943) and co-wrote Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia (1936).Hugh McCormick Smith, also H. M. Smith (November 21, 1865 - September 28, 1941) was an American ichthyologist and administrator in the Bureau of Fisheries. He began working for the U. S. Fish Commission in 1886. He directed the scientific research centre there from 1897 to 1903. From 1901 to 1902, he directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was an associate editor of the National Geographic Society from 1909 to 1919. He was the author of many articles and publications, both popular and scientific, about fish. He was deputy commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1903-1913) and then commissioner (1913-1922). He was the first director general of Department of Fisheries, in the reign of the King Rama VII (1926). He returned to the United States in 1933 and was curator of zoology at the Smithsonian Institution.Nelson Horatio Darton (December 17, 1865 - February 28, 1948) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Surve.