Charles Singer Eds (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 4 only, 728 pp.+ 48 Photo Plts at back, Blue Hardback, Gilt title, 4to, Near Fine in slightly chipped DJ, 1st ed. Tom Browne (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped, Sl Soiled Dj. 1st (no Additional ptg). Bumped front lower corner. Darkened dj backstrip. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Sl Soiled Dj. 1st (no Additional ptg). Sl darkened dj backstrip. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 5 only, 888 pp.+ 44 Photo Plts at back, Blue Hardback, Gilt title, 4to, Near Fine in slightly chipped DJ, 1st ed. Tom Browne (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good Plus. Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer, 1970, First Edition, 8vo softcover, 61pp, stapled, green wrapper; Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring, 1974, First Edition, 8vo softcover, 91pp, stapled, striped blue wrapper. Vintage digest magazines, featuring philosophy, politics, literature, criticism. Both Very Good Plus condition, light rubbing, toning, foxing; brief pencil to front (1974).…

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Volume II: The Mediterranean Civilizations and the Middle Ages c 700 B.C. to c A.D. 1500. Color frontis. with tissue guard & many b/w illustrations, thick 4to, cloth, d.w.; small library stamp on front flyleaf & d.w. very chipped, torn, worn with a browned spine. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Very good with worn d.w. …

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Vol. I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires. Color frontis. with tissue guard & many b/w illustrations, thick 4to, cloth, d.w.; (small library stamp on front flyleaf & d.w. chipped & worn with browned spine). Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1956). Very good copy with worn d.w.…

Condition: Fair. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Foxing on dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2500grams, ISBN:0198581068.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 3. (Technology, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Volume I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires. 827pp., 36 plates, text is just lightly toned, hinges starting, front free endpaper has top right corner cut out, blue boards with gilt stamped spine show a slight soiling and scuffing, otherwise, about Very Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, (1957). Volume I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires. 827pp., 36 plates. Covers show light soiling, otherwise clean, Very Good in a slightly toned and chipped DJ.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Revised Edition. Fourth Printing. Publisher's full navy blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Generously illustrated with B&W photographs on glossy stock and in-text drawings. Includes essays by Sir George Adam Smith, Edwyn Bevan, F. C. Burkitt, R. T. Herford, A. Guillaume, Charles and Dorothy Singer, Rev. Canon Box, W. B. Selbie, N. Isaacs, L. Roth, A. Meillet, Laurie Magnus, C. G. Montefiore, and a detailed Index. . Former owner's small label on fep, shadows on endpapers, slight foxing on edges only, else fine; tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Oxford University Legacy Series Series. Photographs and Drawings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxix, 551, (1) pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 728 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Binding is lightly scuffed to front cover. Bfep has crease to top corner. Foxing to pg. text block. Pg. edges lightly sunned. DJ sunned along edges and spine. Stain to back cover. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 888 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Covers minimally soiled. Foxing to front and back pde and fep. Staining to pg. text block. Pg. edges have light sunning. DJ has sunning to edges and spine. DJ also has some foxing. Wear to ends of spine. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 888 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name stamp on fpde. DJ sunned on front cover and spine. Also to back edges. Lightly soiled. Some staining to spine. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings. Contents very nice.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Usual library markings, some light shelfwear, contents, however, very tidy. Size: 4to 0.0. Ex-Library.

HC. Condition: Gut. Oln, originalgetreuer Umschlag (Faks.)., ., gr 8?, 888s + 42 Plates., in gutem Zustand, [LSC34,4b] Deu 1200g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Photos included in listing. Ex-library book. Others available in this Volume set, please check my catalog "Collections".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photos included in listing. Ex-library book. Others available in this Volume set, please check my catalog "Collections".

hardcover. Condition: Good. 8 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. University library stamps and markings. V. 1. From early times to fall of ancient empires. --v. 2. The Mediterranean civilizations and the Middle Ages, c. 700 B.C. to c. 1500 A.D. --v. 3. From the Renaissance to the industrial revolution, c. 1500-c. 1750. --v. 4. The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850. --v. 5. The late nineteenth century, c. 1850 to c. 1900. --v. 6-7. The twentieth century, c. 1900 to c. 1950. --v. 8. Consolidated indexes. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small quarto xxxvii + 266 + (32)pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, indexes, Very nice copy in bright blue buckram boards in a chipped & repaired dust jacket.

Hardcover. [7.5" X 9.75"] 827pp., 36 plates; 802pp., 44 plates; 766pp., 32 plates; 728pp., 48 plates. All volumes: very good / soiled, torn and worn dust jackets.

LV, (1), 8 (maps), 827 pp. + 36 plate-pages; LIX, (1), 802 pp. + 44 plate-pages; XXXVII, (1), 766 pp. + 32 plate-pages; XXXIII, (1), 728 pp. + 48 plate-pages; XXXVIII, 888 pp. + 42 plate-pages. All volumes with colour frontispiece and illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth. Some hinges slightly loose, loose plates in vol. 4 & 5, plates in the same volumes waterstained, covers of vol. 4 a bit soiled, top of spine of vol. 1 damaged. 10 kilos / 22 lbs.…

First edition. 8vo., pp. 418 + plates. Trivial ink stain to bottom margin at edge only of 4pp. and edges a little dust-marked, otherwise internally unblemished. Hardback: buff cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Cloth covering spine detached in one piece but present (loosely inserted), split along gutter between title-page and Contents but binding holding well, corners and top edge a little bumped, cloth discoloured. No dust-jacket. Currently a useful reading copy; rare and eminently reparable. Bookplate of the Bibliotheca Cariana to front pastedown. "3d" in ink to top corner of ffep. Eighteen essays in English, German or Italian covering a range of medical topics from Antiquity to Modern Times. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Gold titles on blue cloth. Dust jacket have some chips and tear and the previous owner's name is printed on each front free endpaper. Volume I From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires is 825 pages including index plus 36 plates. Volume II Mediterranean Civilization and the Middle Ages is 802 pages plus 44 plates. Volume III From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution 1500-1750 is 764 pages plus 32 plates. Volume IV Industrial Revolutions 1750-1850 is 728 pages plus 48 platres. Volume V The Late Nineteenth Century 1850-1900 is 888 pages plus44 plates. All volumes are tight and clean. Extra shipping charges for international and priority shipment.…

Reprinted lithographically from sheets of the third impression. 5 volumes. Thick 8vo. xlix, 827; liv, 802; xxxvii, 766; xxxiii, 728; xxxviii, 888 pp. Indices, maps, tables, illustrations, color frontispieces, 36; 44; 32; 48; 44 plates. Pastedowns and free end-leaves foxed, else text and plates clean. Navy blue cloth, gilt-stamped spines, dust-jackets; jackets torn and foxed. Vol. V with slip reading "Spare copy returned by Lord McGowan. With the Compliments of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited" laid-in. Very good in good jackets. Preferred issue (thicker paper stock). "By the 1950s, a new conflict was growing between capitalism and communism, which would be fought as much through technology and economics as through military might. Charles Singer, a prominent British historian of science and medicine, was commissioned to prepare A History of Technology for Oxford University Press (with the help of an endowment from Imperial Chemical Industries) in the late 1940s. . . . Singer's emphasis of a 'gradual easing' of human conditions by means of technology differs from the inevitable revolutions associated with Marxism. Nevertheless, [Gordon] Childe still employed revolutionary vocabulary in his contributions to Singer's first volumeâ"at a time when an avowed Marxist would have lost his job in the United States" (Oleson, p. 72). Oleson, John Peter. Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.…

Five vols. Tall thick 8vo. Approx. 4500 pp., plus over 250 plates. Colour frntsps. 1000s of text illusts., diagrams, head- & tail-pieces. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (creasng & wear to first couple signatures in vol.III). still a VG set. First Library of Science edition of this famed history of technology and science from the ancient world to the end of the 19th century.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4to. 1957-1978, 7 volumes (a mongrel set) wanting final volume of 'consolidated indexes', good copies, a mixed set with ownership inscriptions to the front endpaers in four of the volumes, one ex-library volume with usual markings, good in original cloth gilt, dustwrapper of the first volume is torn with significant loss at top of spine and book covered in brown paper, otherwise wrappers good where present, volumes 3 ,4 & 5 without dustwrapper, good mixed set, please see photos. This set is heavy additional shipping cost will apply to international orders. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Vol. 1-From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires (1954); Vol. 2-The Mediterranean Civilizations and the Middle Ages (1956); Vol. 3-From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution c.1500-c.1750 (1957); Vol. 4-The Industrial Revolution c.1750-c.1850 (1958); Vol. 5-The Late Nineteenth Century c.1850-c.1900 (1958). Corners bumped. DJ have some wearing to edges and corners. Vol. 5 has previous owner's name in pencil on inside flap of dj. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings. Contents very nice.…