Van Der Riet Frank (9 results)
Language: English
Published by David Philip, Cape Town, 1974
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards clean and undamaged. Wraps lightly rubbed along top edge. 111pp. profusely illus. No markings.
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Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Publication of 111 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small chipped pieces. There are old tape residue marks on the inner part of the dust jacket. The boards are in good condition. There are minor pencil annotations within the book, the… pages remain clean and complete, the text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Martinus Nijhoff, La Haye, 1936
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Add to basketIn-8 - br. 152 pp.
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Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited . 100 copies bound in Quarter Leather, Numbered and Signed by the Author Frank van der Riet. Constitute a Limited Deluxe edition of 100 copies this is number 28. Signed on the limitation page. South African Yesterday Number 4. Bookplate tipped in on the first blank page. Publication of 11…1 pages. Frontispiece. There is bright gold gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are in very good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.
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Cloth on Board. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, Slight Tears. First Edition. 111 pages ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 7" Wide By 10" Tall.
Published by Gynaika, Antwerpen, 1997
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Contact seller2-star sellerhardcover with dust jacket. An Unexpected Journey" takes us to a world of women artists from times past and present, from all over the world, who created their work sometimes under easy circumstances, most often though in great hardship.Text: Linden Riet van der, Vanderbroeck Paul et al.cm 25x31; pp. 320; COL and BW; hardcover w…ith dust jacket. book.
Published by La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff 1936, 1936
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Add to basket152 + [3] pp.+ frontispice, 25cm., br.orig., bon état, T90516.
Published by David Philip, Publisher, Cape Town
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[0-949968-28-5] 1974, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 100. (4to) Fine, no dust jacket. 111pp. The de Luxe edition signed by the author. Half leather. Map endpapers, photographic title page spread, photographs. Publisher series: South African Yesterdays Number 4. Locale: Grahamstown--South Africa; South Africa. (History…--South Africa, Local History--South Africa).
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
DYSON, Frank (1868-1939) & R. v. d. R. [Richard van der Riet] WOOLLEY (1906-1986):
Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937., 1937
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Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.Ted Kottler, Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, vii, 160 pp; 11 plates. Original cloth. Ex-library: faint embossed stamp on title page, label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown. Some very light, spotty staining to lower half of front cover. Else Very Good, without dust jacket. 'With regard to solar ast…ronomy, the study of solar activity and of solar-terrestrial relations was at a peak at this period, and Greenwich was a world leader in the field. H.W. Newton (1893-1985) was in charge of the Solar Department; he stimulated Woolley's interest in this study, in both obtaining and interpreting observations. A large part of these came from the use of a Hale spectrohelioscope on loan since 1930 from Mt Wilson. Woolley and Newton constructed ancillary equipment that improved its performance. Woolley was able to interpret the results in terms of his theory of the structure of the solar atmosphere: he showed how the theory could be tested rather rigorously by the way in which the character of lines in the solar spectrum can be observed to vary across the solar disk, especially in the vicinity of the limb. This sort of observation was impossible except for the Sun. A highlight in this phase of Woolley's involvement in solar astronomy was his co-authorship of Eclipses of the Sun and Moon by F.W. Dyson and himself. Sir Frank Dyson (1868-1939), Astromoner Royal 1910-33, was an astronomer of great talent and remarkable versatility. Amongst his manifold astronomical activities, he had been a dedicated, successful and uniquely fortunate observer of total eclipses of the Sun. On his retirement he felt an obligation to write a book to review the scientific outcome of everything of the sort done hitherto. It was a typical inspiration on his part to invite so relatively young a colleague as Woolley to share in the work; he must have done so with the agreement of Spencer Jones as Woolley's Director. So far as I know. Woolley never saw a total solar eclipse, but he was able to provide a background of up-to-date solar physics, and incidentally to make the language of the text flow more smoothly than Dyson's more staccato style would have done. The result was an authentic classic of astronomical literature, though an unpretentious one' (William McCrea, 'Richard van der Riet Woolley 1906-1986', Australian Academy of Science, Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows). 'The 1920s also brought the Astronomer Royal the opportunity to view his fifth eclipse. On June 29, 1927, thousands of people rushed to the North of England to witness the first total eclipse of the sun visible in this country for 200 years. In most areas, the skies were disappointingly overcast. But Sir Frank, who was renowned for his good luck with the weather on such occasions, picked the ideal location in the grounds of Giggleswick School, near Settle, in North Yorkshire. The total eclipse was due to occur just after 6am, and the sun remained hidden behind clouds until almost the last minute. Then, suddenly, the skies cleared to give the perfect view. The astronomer introduced a couple of innovations for recording the event. Not only was colour film used for the first time, but photographs were also taken from an aeroplane. Sir Frank Dyson finally retired as Astronomer Royal in February 1933, aged 65. . . . During his retirement, Sir Frank wrote a book on his favourite topic, in collaboration with fellow astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley. Published in 1937, Eclipses of the Sun and Moon was considered an authoritative work on the subject' (Vivienne Smith, 'Sir Frank Dyson: Astronomer Royal was no pipsqueak', on You & Yesterday Web site). For Dyson, also see D.S.B. IV: 269-270.
