Van Riemsdijk John (77 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. 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: Very Good. Compound Locomotives (Pendragon Books) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine with no wear or markings and bright in a near fine or even better jacket - looks about new. Large Format.

Hardback. 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.

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.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed. Front cover a little creased. A Science Museum book. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial gloss card covers, crease to the bottom leading corner tip of the front cover otherwise a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated throughout, 75pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial gloss card covers, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated throughout, 89pp.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 192 pages; Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col. ) , ports. ; 33 cm. Subjects: Steam-engines --History. Notes: Includes index. Abundantly figure, photo & diagram illustrated throughout. 2 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 192 pages; Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col. ) , ports. ; 33 cm. Subjects: Steam-engines --History. Notes: Includes index. Abundantly figure, photo & diagram illustrated throughout. 2 Kg. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, corners creased, spine a little slanted and yellowing, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust wrapper with sunned spine and a little edge & corner wear. Top Edge with light foxing/spotting marks. Internally Very Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any issues, clean and tidy copy in tight binding. Unclipped dust wrapper will be fitted with removable archive acetate film. ** 807g ** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed.; Pendragon Books.…

Condition: guter Zustand. Stempel auf Innenseite d. Vorderdeckels. Sonst gut.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lightly edge-rubbed covers else minimal wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. P/B 84 pages condition is very good.

Soft Covers. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A Science Museum Book. Paperback. 75 pages. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. BBC Books; 1972. Hardcover. Ex Library book so stamps associated with this. Label has been removed from FFEP. Previous owners surname to FFEP. Edited by Brenda Horsfield. Colour and b/w illustrations.

Condition: Good. Edgeworn softcover with light creases, scuffs & scratches. Faint marks to textblock edge. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 140 pages, 795g. Red cloth boards MINT in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings. Regarded as an essential reference work on the subject, with over 200 photographs from the authors collection.

Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has light scratches/marks and outer edges have minor scuffs. Book content is in like new condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. There are books that explain science, and there are books that perform the rather more enchanting task of inviting you into the place where science has been stored, displayed, polished, labelled, and made available for public admiration. In The Science Museum , by John van Riemsdijk and Paul Sharp , is very much of the latter sort: a book not just about scientific ideas, but about the glorious institutional habit of collecting engines, instruments, inventions and contraptions, then arranging them in such a way that generations of visitors may wander about saying, ?Good heavens,? and pressing their faces closer to glass cases. Published in 1968 by HMSO , this volume comes from a particularly pleasing era in British public culture, when official publishing still managed to sound faintly authoritative about everything from transport to archaeology to the proper appreciation of a museum. There is something irresistible about a mid-century government publication devoted to the Science Museum. It suggests a national confidence that steam engines, telescopes, early aeroplanes, industrial machinery and baffling brass apparatus were not merely worth preserving, but worth presenting to the public in orderly form for their edification and delight. And what a subject the Science Museum is. A museum of science is never merely a building full of old machines. It is a monument to the human habit of fiddling with things until civilisation happens. Here are the remnants of trial, error, genius, smoke, gears, measurements, patents, optimism and the occasional catastrophic design flaw, all safely brought indoors and given captions. A book like this offers readers the chance to encounter that vast parade of ingenuity in paper form, which is ideal for those who enjoy machinery, history, or simply the reassuring fact that humanity has sometimes used its intelligence to invent devices more uplifting than modern app notifications. The title is beautifully matter-of-fact too: In The Science Museum . No flashy subtitle, no branding department trying to reposition scientific heritage as ?an immersive innovation journey.? You are simply in the Science Museum, and that is apparently considered sufficient inducement. Quite right too. It has the confidence of an institution that knows it contains locomotives, laboratories, engines, instruments and all manner of civilisational hardware, and therefore does not need to oversell itself with exclamation marks. One imagines the book taking the reader through galleries and displays with calm, intelligent enthusiasm, introducing the treasures of the museum in a style both informative and faintly reverent. There is a particular pleasure in older museum books because they often reflect a time when public instruction was allowed to be serious without becoming dull. The assumption was that readers could be trusted to care about engineering, astronomy, medicine, industry and invention if only someone sensible showed them the right objects in the right order. It was a nobler age, at least in print. Published in 1968 , the book also stands at an interesting historical angle. It looks back at the great history of invention while belonging to a period when the future itself still seemed thrillingly mechanical. This was the era of jets, rockets, modern design, optimistic engineering and the lingering confidence that technology might solve rather a lot. So the book likely carries not just a respect for scientific heritage, but a quiet excitement about the onward march of ingenuity. Reading it now, one gets the charm of double perspective: the museum?s old wonders seen through the eyes of a past future. There is, naturally, a gentle irony in the whole business. So many of the objects in a science museum were once the absolute cutting edge of practical modernity, and are now admired behind barriers by visitors buying postcards in the gift shop. Today?s breakthrough device is tomorrow?s lovingly dusted exhibit. The story of progress, it turns out, ends in display cabinets. Still, there are worse destinies than being remembered as the machine that changed everything. This Good copy, sold by the ever-deceptively named Crappy Old Books , feels exactly right for such a title. It has the reassuring solidity of a book meant to inform, survive, and perhaps accompany some long-ago museum visit by a curious reader in sensible shoes. A pristine copy would be lovely, certainly, but a good one suggests it has done what museum books are meant to do: been opened, consulted, perhaps revisited whenever someone wished to remember that Britain once put giant engines in public buildings and expected people to be grateful. A splendid little volume for readers interested in museums, invention, engineering, scientific heritage and that wonderfully old-fashioned belief that knowledge should be both accessible and dignified, In The Science Museum is a reminder that curiosity can be institutionalised to excellent effect. A book for anyone who has ever loved machinery, labels, and the slightly holy hush of a gallery full of things that once represented the future.…