Remarks Recent Oceanic Explorations Current Creating by William Leighton Jordan (4 results)

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 72.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 74. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1877 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 74.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good copy in full leather with black title band and gilt titles. Gilt tooling on fore-edges, dentelles are decoratively stamped, but not gilt. All edges-gilt. Patterned endpapers. Edge-wear and rubbing. The title on the spine reads "Skirmishes on the Vanguard of Science," but the volume contains the following essays/lectures bound in one volume: Remarks on the Recent Oceanic Explorations and the Current-Creating Action of Vis-Inertiae in the Ocean; The Winds and Their Story of the World; A Lecture on the Winds, Ocean Currents and Tides (Two Parts); Letters on the Tone of Science and the New Theory of Vis-Inertiae; Remarks on the Admiralty Current Charts; The Elements of Astronomy; An Answer to the President of the Argentine Scientific Society; Anniversary Address Delivered on the Opening of the Fifth Session of the English Literary Society; Letters on Science; The Double Standard and the National Debt; Skirmishes in the Vanguard of Science; The Pound Sterling, Its History and Character; The Standard of Value: Lord Liverpool's Oversight and its Consequence. In addition, taped rather clumsily in the back of the volume, a small pamphlet by Jordan "Huxley on the Laws of Motion and Siemens on the Sun's Heat.". …