Henri Lemaitre Preface (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text Integral edition. GOOD CONDITION, PENCIL NOTES & UNDERLINING IN TEXT .Else quite nice.; FRENCH LANGUAGE.POETRY, POEMS. RED & BLACK SPINE & COVER TITLES ON GLOSSY WHITE PAPER COVERS.Cover art shows woman , bit red, in 4x4" box. ; 252ps pages; FOREWORD , CHRONOLOGY & DISCUSSIONS OF THE TRANSLATION.Baudelaire's magnum opus perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century - won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur's striking black and white monotypes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover in slipcase; no dustjacket as issued. No edition stated. Green cloth boards with illustration pastedown, clean, bright and sharp, short tear to spine bottom. Cloth slipcase is clean, with sharp corners, minimal shelf wear to edges. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. A lovely copy. With a preface by Henri Lemaitre; numerous full color-tipped-in plates throughout. Text is in FRENCH. Very beatiful book. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 138 pages.

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. In-4 broché 33,5 cm sur 25,6. 324 pages. Frontispice sous serpente imprimée de saint François par Bernard Naudin d'après la statue de Donatello. En fin d'ouvrage une illustration en noit hors texte de Bernard Naudin. Couverture à rabat, effrangée légèrement poussiéreuses, Dos sur la partie supérieure présentant des traces d'humidité sinon état correct d'occasion. Préface Cardinal Dubois in-4°.

1982, Paris, Flammarion, Texte Integral, 254 paginas, 18x10, cubiertas en tapa blanda ilustrada, 200 gramos, buen estado.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ix. 186 pages ; 8vo ; OCLC 561715345 and 1648813; LCCN 50010506 LC QC6 .L3814 1950 Dewey 530.1 green cloth, no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; pocket ; ownership stamp of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer and Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 and earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics.He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble-Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. ; Translation of L'hypothe`se de l'atome primitif ; Contents: The size of space -- Expansion -- Evolution -- Cosmogonic hypothesis -- The primeval atom ; scarce ; stain on front cover ; else G. Book.