Forbes Professor (53 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dj, some wear, still nice! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Oversized.

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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Hardback w/ jacket; text is unmarked; inside boards (front and back) and flyleaves have extensive notes in pencil; otherwise clean; jacket fine.

Condition: New.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Fair. No d/w. First Edition. 104pp; Illustrated with b/w photos; Covers slightly creased and worn at edges else a bright and tight copy; Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. 382pp. (black spine) 4to. sized. 2000. First edition. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright very good plus copy in like jacket. Original publisher's black cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions. The slightest of crease marks to the leading edges of about 3 or 4 leaves and a 1cm long soil mark to the upper fore-edge - quite possibly from the printing process. Some light uniform fading to the picture part of the spine. A very good plus, clean, tight and bright copy of a lovely publication. Will not incur additional postage costs - if that is you live in the UK.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A good copy of this original paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March & April 1833, extracted from Volume XI, 1834. Disbound - but in very good condition with no loose pages. 35 pages (largely unopened, last leaf in facsimile) - an interesting study . SOFT COVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, EXCELLENT CONDITION, SPLENDID VALUE.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: New. First Edition thus. Illustrated with a mounted colour frontispiece, four plates and two folding maps, octavo, pp xlviii, 366, very clean internally, brown cloth, a very good copy. [Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series number 17.].

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A small publication of 23 pages. Paperback stapled bound. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is sporadic foxing on the early pages, and slightly around the block of the book, but very little in the body of the book. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lower spine ended bumped. Otherwise appears unused with no marks.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 576 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.30 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Two volumes (complete). Hand-numbered 1036 of a limited edition of 2500 copies. Both covered in stamped azure cloth. Gilt titling (fresh and imperious). the boards are a little bumped. A mesmerizingly beautiful set. The books are excessively chic and genteel. The pages are very clean, very clear, very proud, very sure, shiveringly elegant. Careful and devoted production. Designed and executed with diligence and duty. Tightly bound. fk. r*23/05/2022. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 306, [iv, ads.]; map frontis.; illusts. to text; near-fine in the original cloth, gilt, bookplate of Richard G. West. Edward Forbes (1815-54) was "undoubtedly the pre-eminent British naturalist of his era . one of many who attempted to make sense of the distribution of living organisms and the patterns of the fossil record by invoking idealistic notions of powers immanent in nature, God-derived or not, which united and made comprehensible the facts of natural history" (ODNB). The present work was left unfinished at Forbes's death, and its completion undertaken by the geologist Robert Godwin-Austen. The chapters are devoted to individual regions, beginning with the 'Arctic Province' and concluding with the Caspian Sea. There follows a chapter on the distribution of marine mammals, and a discussion of the 'Early History of the European Seas'.…