Needham Joseph Wang Ling Gwei (21 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxv, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm. Summary:The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Quarter binding of black cloth and illustrated paper, gilt lettering on spine, corners sharp, lightly age-toned pages, no owner's mark or annotations, binding tight. Dust jacket missing. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping. ; 8 X 2.75 X 10.25 inches; 990 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1970. First Edition. 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in. xix,470 pages, Index, Bibliography. Folding Chart, 104 illustrations including 43 on glossy stock. Maroon cloth, tiny nick in edge, rest in near fine condition, owner's name stamped on lower edge of text block, on front pastedown, and on two lower margins. Dustjacket has small break on fold, price clipped. Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology, based largely on collaborative work with Wang Ling, Lu Gwei-Djen, and Ho Ping-Yu, and are "by-products" of a larger, multi-volume work, Science and Civilization in China. ; 104 illustrations; 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 489 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. lvii 990p huge hardback, half-cloth with gilt lettering and b&w illustration, tan paper jacket with blue artwork, very good condition, light wear to jacket edges and surfaces, light foxing to exteriors, pages clean and bright like new, photographs and diagrams throughout, fold-out colour maps in like-new condition, an excellent copy of third part of volume IV Language: English Weight (g): 2310.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxii, 510 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean grey & b/w illustration of the Taoist Genii printed on the cover is part of a temple scroll, recent but traditional, given to Mr. Brian Harland in Szechuan province (1946). Black spine wrap & gilt titles. Edges: very light foxing; a touch soiling. Light rubbings to boards top and bottom edges. Small rubbings to boards four corner tips. Ffep head fore corner with small signature 1972. All fldg maps are clean and present. Clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+, albeit being a heavy book just a touch loose. 931p Dj: faint dusting of just a little soiling, yellowing and rubbings. Spine: head & foot with thin wear, splits and chips. Head & foot of flaps spines with open wear. Heavy book: 2 kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding which has some looseness but remains solid overall, small spots of light soiling to the head and fore edge of the text block that do not bleed onto the pages, faint bowing to the covers, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and some minor sunning to the cover edges, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.

4to. pp xix, 470. 99 illustrations. Not an ex-library copy as is usually found. Very good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.

Condition: New. pp. 742.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. [Reprint?]. Octavo, lvii, 931 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket in clear plastic sleeve. Light shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$55.00 in U.S.A. ;ï¿¡18 in U.K.". Boards in green cloth. Toning to spine, blemishes at bottom edge, light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings, photographs, maps. Facing title page: ä åç§'å æè¡"å / æç ç'è'. With publisher information in Chinese on title page verso, this may be Chinese reprint edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1382205. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Book.

Cambridge, [etc.], Cambridge University Press, 1971. LVII,931 pp. Num. b./w. figs & plts + 3 fold. maps. Orig. h.cloth, gilt lettered on spine, d./j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [The Most Authoritative Survey of the History of Chinese Science and Technological Advances] 14 volumes. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jackets in protective mylar covers. Contents: V. 1. Introductory orientations; V. 2. History of scientific thought; V. 3. Mathematics and the science of the heavens and the earth; V. 4. Physics and physical technology. Pt.1. Physics; Pt.2. Mechanical engineering; Pt.3. Civil engineering and nautics; V. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology. Pt.1. Paper and printing; Pt.2. Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality; Pt.3. Spagyrical discovery and invention : historical survey from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin; Pt.4. Spagyrical discovery and invention : apparatus, theories and gifts; Pt.5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy; Pt.6. Military technology : missiles and sieges; Pt.7. Military technology : the gunpowder epic; V.6. Biology and biological technology. Pt.1. Botany; Pt.2. Agriculture. Needham's work was significant because it brought attention to the superiority of Chinese science and technology to those of European, prior to the 16th century and examined the multi-cultural roots of science. One of the most significant questions Needham raises is why Chinese science stopped innovating after the 16th century. An seminal work in the history of China, science, and the development of the world.

Cambridge, [etc.], Cambridge University Press, 1962-1971. 3 vols. XXXIV,434, LV,759, LVII,931 pp. B./w. ills. Orig. uniform hardcovers (h.cloth, gilt lettered on spines), d,/j. 8vo. - Dust jackets sl. worn along the edges.Complete set of volume 4 in three parts: part I: Physics (1st ed.); part II: Mechanical engineering (1st ed.); part III: Civil engineering and nautics (1st ed.).