Bremner Jean P (3 results)

Condition: VG+/VG+ dj. 182pp.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 182pp..

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. First Edition. Hutchinson's Pocket Encyclopaedia. Previous owners name to inside cover. Award sticker to inside cover which says, H.M.S. 'Caledonia', Roysth. Presented by The Lord's Commisioners of the Admiralty to E.R.A. Apprentice F. P. Costen (F&T) for Metirorious Work. 1952. 1st Prize for Workmanship in '7' Class. Slight foxing to edge. Slight wear to corners and spine of cloth. Small mark to front cloth. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. 'Technical' implied usefulness, useful now in maintaining and developing our civilization in the light of scientific research and experience in the past. All technology must be based on science, which means experiement, observation and record, and it is increasingly dependent on new ideas and a new grade of precision in working them out in practice, and a great deal depends on precision of language. Although the entries in this Pocket Encyclopaedia have been large based on Hutchinson's four-volume Technical and Scientific Encyclopaedia (1936) and their Twentieth Century Encyclopaedia (1948), there has been no hesitation about making necessary amendments. With no claim to finality or completeness, one can here give but a hint or suggestion, not a thesis or disquisition on a matter of doubt in a person's mind; the short answer, which is the feature of this book, often suffices, more dealt may often confuse. 182 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …