Robert Mccormick Adams (27 results)

Condition: like_new. Fast Free Shipping â" Excellent condition book with clean cover and pages. Barely handled, with minimal wear. An outstanding copy, close to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover with dust jacket, from a private home collection. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1992. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only lightly rubbed). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Oversize hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. Bound in the original blind stamped white cloth. Illustrated with 115 photos, including 50 full-color plates. Foreword by Arthur W. Schultz. Introduction by Robert McCormick Adams. Contains essays by Huntington T. Block, Brian Considine, Meg Craft, and 16 others, including a number of professional art conservators. This guide for the private collector provides a comprehensive description of how to preserve and maintain collected art and other cherished collectibles. Filled with authoritative advice of practical value. In separate chapters, specialists tell how to care for: Paintings, Furniture, Ceramics, Glass, Books, Manuscripts, Stamps, Photographs, Musical Instruments, Textiles, Ethnographic Materials (Baskets, Masks, etc), Stone Objects, Metal Objects. List of Conservation Resources. Bibliography. Index. Shipping for this large, heavy book is most economical by MEDIA MAIL. Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater cost. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 216pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 70 pages text, pictures and finances of the Smithsonian. Old Cleveland Museum of Art stickers on cover, inside front cover, and inside back cover. Last page has black ink stains from rub-off of the blacked out stick on the inside back cover. Art Catalog.

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

Condition: good. A former college library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Stresses the episodic nature of innovation that has accelerated over time until today, when technical innovation is a constant feature of life. xvi+332 pages,Notes, Bibliography, index. Out of Print.…

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Condition: very_good. This book is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Condition: New. pp. 190.

Condition: New. pp. 190 29 Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Although a vast amount of our country's art and antiques is still in private hands, most books on conservation and maintenance have been written for professional curators and museum staff members. This handy and eminently readable volume is the first comprehensive, practical care guide aimed at the average person. 118 illustrations, 50 in full color. Wrapped in Brodart dust jacket protector. Out of print. Book has minor shelf wear.…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Collectible-Good. Fitz' Fitzgilbert has survived the battlefield, personal tragedy and economic hardship; now all he wants is peace. He moves into an isolated, ramshackle house built--oddly--on an earthen mound. Then he uncovers a hidden passageway beneath the house and falls into another world. Ken Kelly (illustrator).…

Condition: New. pp. 190.

Soft cover. Octavo, original gray paper wrappers, black stamped lettering on covers. Volume XXX, No. 5 of Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis, illustrated throughout with black and white plates, pages 151-221 as published. Very good, very light shelf wear.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965. First edition. In-4, xvi & 187 pages. Original cloth with dust-jacket, the jacket is rubbed, the book itself is a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia. …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. This work focuses on the analysis of early, independent urban societies in Mesopotamia and central Mexico, highlighting their institutional forms and growth trends. It emphasizes structural similarities over distinct cultural features, suggesting that both societies represent variants of a single evolutionary process. Early anthropological studies often stressed cultural diversity in the origins of ancient civilizations, but this volume illustrates significant regularities in human behavior across early societies. The emergence of states--stratified, politically organized societies with complex divisions of labor--marks a transformative phase in human civilization. The author underscores the importance of studying societal evolution, which remains a compelling area of anthropological interest. Originally published in 1966 and based on lectures at the University of Rochester honoring Lewis Henry Morgan, this work continues to be essential for students of anthropology, ethnography, ancient civilizations, and world history. As noted in Science, the book has significantly influenced contemporary research on early urbanism in the Mesopotamian region.…

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Condition: BUONO USATO. Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis INGLESE Fascicolo No. 5, pubblicato il 31 maggio del 1941, del Volume XXX della collana Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis. Fascicolo degli anni '40 del '900 in buono stato, coperta in cartoncino, su piatto anteriore catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta, tracce di fioritura, pochi segni del tempo, tagli appena ambrati, cerniera stretta, pagine in buono stato, ultima poco ambrata. Presenta timbro ex biblioteca su frontespizio e su excipit, XIII tavole con illustrazioni in b. e n. Numero Pagine 71, numerazione delle pagine in sequenza.…

Trans. Acad. Sc. St.Louis, 30/ 5. - St. Louis, Issued May 31, 1941, 8°, pp.151-221, 13 Abb., orig. Broschur; feines Expl. First Edition.

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,332 pp. "Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams' account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth Minor rubbing. Small bump to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…